Women in Islam

What the religion actually says.

A plain-language primer on what the religion says, what the Prophet ﷺ taught, what the four Sunni schools settled, and where they differ on the questions that matter most to a Muslim woman's practice.

Twenty-three short chapters cover purity and prayer; hijab and modesty; worship and the masjid; marriage, intimacy, and motherhood; work and education; divorce and widowhood; and the long arc of a Muslim woman's life from menstruation through menopause. It closes with forty common questions answered briefly, a glossary, and a further-reading list weighted toward women authors and women-led scholarship.

Mainstream Sunni. Hadith citations checked. Women's scholarship foregrounded throughout.

Second edition, revised and reset. Book Fourteen of The New Muslim Companion a series of twenty books for the new Muslim, the returning Muslim, and the curious reader: plain English, no Arabic assumed, honest about where scholars differ.