List of Muslim feminists

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List of Muslim feminists

This is a list of important participants in Muslim feminism, originally sorted by surname within each period.

It may include, for instance, earlier authors who did not self-identify as feminists but have been claimed to have furthered "feminist consciousness" by a resistance of male dominance expressed in their works.

Nawab Faizunnessa, feminist from the early 19's

Early and mid 19th-century feminists

Born between 1801 and 1874.

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Name Country Born Died Comments Source
Nawab FaizunnesaBritish India (present day Bangladesh)18341903female education advocate[1]
Qasim AminEgypt18631908early advocate of women's rights[2][3]
Hamida JavanshirAzerbaijan18731955women's rights activist, philanthropist[4]
Aisha TaymurEgypt18401902social activist, novelist[5]
Fatma Aliye TopuzTurkey18621936women's rights activist, novelist[6]
Jamil Sidqi al-ZahawiIraq18631936poet, Islamic philosopher
Zaynab Fawwaz Lebanon 1860 1914 playwright, women's rights activist [7]
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Late 19th-century and early 20th-century feminists

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Born between 1875 and 1939.

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Name Country Born Died Comments Source
Iffat AraBangladesh1939writer, social activist[8]
Margot BadranUnited States1934-Middle East historian and recognized scholar of Islamic feminism[9]
Eugénie Le BrunEgypt1908[10]
Hamid DalwaiIndia19321977Socialist feminist
Tahar HaddadTunisia18971935[11]
Zaib-un-Nissa HamidullahBritish India19212000pioneer in (pre)Pakistan[12]
Shamsiah FakehMalaysia19242008political leader, Malaysian nationalist[13]
Hameeda HossainBangladesh1936human rights activist, academic[14]
Fatima Ahmed IbrahimSudan19332017
Raden Adjeng KartiniIndonesia18791904Javanese advocate for native Indonesian women, critic of polygamous marriages and lack of education opportunities for women[2]
Sufia KamalBangladesh19111999advocate, nationalist, poet[15]
Anbara Salam KhalidiLebanon18971986author[16][17]
Shamsunnahar MahmudBangladesh19081964leader of the women's rights movement in Bengal[18]
Malak Hifni NasifEgypt18861918[19]
Nizar QabbaniSyria19231998poet, progressive intellectual[20]
Alifa RifaatEgypt19301996novelist[21]
Begum RokeyaBangladesh18801932writer, educator[22][23][24]
Huda Sha'arawiEgypt18791947organiser; founder of Egyptian Feminist Union[25]
Hidaya Sultan al-SalemKuwait19362001writer, campaigner, suffragist[26][27]
Rasuna SaidIndonesia19101965political leader, nationalist[28]
Saiza NabarawiEgypt18971985journalist[29]
Salma SobhanBangladesh19372003lawyer, academic[30]
Nurkhon YuldashevaUzbekistan19131929dancer[31]
Ismat ChughtaiIndia19151991novelist, director
Nazira Zain al-Dine Lebanon 1908 1976 writer, women's rights activist [32]
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Mid to late 20th-century and notable 21st-century feminists

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Born from 1940 to present

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Name Country Born Died Comments Source
Saleemah Abdul-GhafurUnited States1974Global health advocate[33]
Sitara AchakzaiAfghanistan19562009leading Afghan women's rights activist, member of the regional parliament in Kandahar[34]
Jamila AfghaniAfghanistan1974women's rights activist, created the first "gender-sensitive training in Afghanistan for Imams"[35][36]
Mahnaz AfkhamiIran1941women's rights activist, Minister without portfolio for Women's Affairs, Founder and President of Women's Learning Partnership[37][38]
Haleh Afshar, Baroness AfsharUnited Kingdom19442022professor of politics and women's studies, member of the British House of Lords[39]
Nazir AfzalUnited Kingdom1962Public prosecutor and campaigner focusing on violence against women and so-called honour crimes[40]
Leila AhmedEgypt1940Writer on Islam and feminism[41]
Safia Ahmed-janAfghanistan19412006Afghan women's rights advocate[42]
Kecia AliUnited States1972scholar on the study of Islamic Jurisprudence (fiqh) and Women[43]
Mariam Alhassan AloloGhana1957female Islamic missionary[44]
Amat Al Alim AlsoswaYemen1958journalist[45]
Fadela AmaraFrance1964politician[46]
Zainah AnwarMalaysiahead of Sisters in Islam[47]
Seyran AteşGermany1963lawyer[48][49]
Shukria BarakzaiAfghanistan1970politician, journalist[50]
Farzana BariPakistan1952human rights activist[51][52]
Asma BarlasPakistan1950academics[53]
Benazir BhuttoPakistan19532007Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1996[54]
Zoubeïda Bittari Algerian 1939 Author of O, My Muslim Sisters, Weep [55]
Susan CarlandAustralia1978academic[56]
Kamala ChandrakiranaIndonesiahuman rights activist[57]
Shirin EbadiIran1947; activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner for her efforts for the rights of women and children[58]
Sineb El Masrar Germany 1981 Moroccan-German author and magazine editor [59]
Mona EltahawyEgypt1967journalist[60]
Farid EsackSouth Africa1959Muslim scholar, gender equity commissioner
Zahra EshraghiIran1964activist, former government official[61][62]
Soumaya Naamane GuessousMoroccosociologist, women's rights activist[63]
Fatemeh HaghighatjooIran1968reformist politician, contributed proposing a bill to join Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women[64][65]
Mohammad Shafiq HamdamAfghanistan1981Chairman of the Afghan Anti-Corruption Network (AACN)
Suheir HammadJordan1973poet, political activist
Riffat HassanPakistan1943theologian, scholar of the Qur'an[66]
Hissa HilalSaudi Arabiapoet[67]
Lubna al-HusseinSudanjournalist, human rights activist[68]
Samira IbrahimEgypt1987activist[69]
Ramziya al-IryaniYemen1954novelist, diplomat[70][71]
Na'eem JeenahSouth Africa1965academic[72]
Mohja KahfSyria1967
Meena Keshwar KamalAfghanistan19561987women's rights activist, founder of Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan[73][74][75][76]
Sultana KamalBangladesh1950activist[77][78]
Sadiq KhanUnited Kingdom1970Mayor of London since 2016[79]
Noushin Ahmadi KhorasaniIran20th century
Fawzia KoofiAfghanistan1975 or 1976politician, women' rights activist[80]
Elaheh KoulaeiIran1956
Konca KurişTurkey19611999writer[81]
Asma LamrabetMorocco[82]
Mukhtār Mā'īPakistan1972advocate for women's rights[83]
Irshad ManjiCanada1968[84]
Farideh MashiniIran2012women's rights activist[85]
Fatema MernissiMorocco19402015[86]
Ziba Mir-HosseiniIran1952academic of Islamic law and gender[87][88]
Fakhrossadat MohtashamipourIranreformist activist, head of women's affairs at the Ministry of Interior[89]
Ilham MoussaïdFrance1989politician[90][91]
Shirin NeshatIran1957visual artist[92][93]
Asra NomaniIndia1965[94]
Queen Noor of JordanJordan1951queen consort of Jordan
Ayaz Latif PalijoPakistan1968politician
Zahra RahnavardIran1945academic, politician[95]
Queen Rania of JordanJordan1970queen consort of Jordan
Raheel RazaPakistan1949journalist, activist[96][97]
Nilofar SakhiAfghanistan20th centuryhuman rights activist[98]
Zainab SalbiIraq1969humanitarian, CEO of Women for Women International[99][100]
Linda SarsourUnited States1980Islamist political activist[101]
Marjane SatrapiFrance, Iran1969comic artist[102]
Shamima ShaikhSouth Africa19601998South African activist, member of the Muslim Youth Movement of South Africa, proponent of Islamic gender equality[103]
Shahla SherkatIran1956journalist
Nasrin SotoudehIran1963human rights lawyer[104]
Hidayet Şefkatli TuksalTurkey1963human rights activist[105]
Zil-e-Huma UsmanPakistan19712007politician, women's rights activist[106]
Amina WadudUnited States1952[107]
Rama YadeFrance1976politician, writer[108]
Nadia YassineMorocco1958[109]
Malala YousafzaiPakistan1997Pakistani activist for female education[110]
Bilkisu YusufNigeria19522015journalist, NGO adviser[111]
Kadra YusufNorway1980activist[112]
Musdah MuliaIndonesia1960human rights activist, Islamic scholar, theologian, proponent of Islamic gender equality and LGBTIQ, interfaith activist, one of founders and leaders of ICRP - Indonesian Conference on Religion and Peace[citation needed]
Manal al-Sharif Saudi Arabia 1979 women's rights activist [113]
Samar Badawi Saudi Arabia 1981 women's rights activist [114]
Nassima al-Sadah Saudi Arabia 1974 women's rights activist [114]
Rita Puspa Zakaria Indonesia 1967 women's rights activist and health advocate [115]
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Muslim feminist movements

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