Articles

Articles
‘The Challenge of Islamic Feminism’
Gender and Research, Czech Academy of Science, 2019

pp. 108-122. [Link]

‘Olfa Youssef’s book, The Perplexity of a Muslim Woman: Over Inheritance, Marriage and Homosexuality’
Hypatia Reviews Online, 2018 [Link]
‘The Feminist Encounter with Muslim Legal Tradition’
Samyukta: A Journal of Gender and Culture, special Issue, Vol. XVII, No 1, 2017, January

pp. 48-62.

‘The Islamic Republic’s War on Women’
Foreign Policy, 2016, 29 August [Link]
‘Challenges and Complicities’
Abdolkarim Sorush and Gender– Princeton University [Link]
‘Honouring Fatima Mernissi’
Musawah, 2016, February [Link]
‘Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition’
OpenDemocracy, 2015, 6 April [Link]
‘Out of This Dead-end’
Men in Islam, Critical Muslim 8, 2013 [Link]
‘How to Challenge Patriarchal Ethics of Muslim Legal Tradition’
OpenDemocracy, 2013, 13 May [Link]
‘Feminist voices in Islam: promise and potential’
OpenDemocracy, 2012, 19 November [Link]
‘Decoding the “DNA of Patriarchy” in Muslim Family Laws’
OpenDemocracy, 2012, 21 May [Link]
‘Iranian responses to the “Arab spring”: appropriation and contestation’
OpenDemocracy, 2012, 29 February [Link]
‘Islam y feminismo: la apertura de un Nuevo dialog’ 
Boletin ecos, no 14, marzo-mayo, 2011[Link]
‘Beyond ‘Islam’ vs ‘Feminism’
IDS Bulletin Volume 42 Number 1, 2011, January

pp 67-77. [Link]

‘Islam and Feminism: Whose Islam? Whose Feminism?’
Contestation: Dialogue on Women’s Empowerment,Issue 1, Islam and Feminism, 2010
‘Criminalizing Sexuality: Zina Laws as Violence Against Women in Muslim Contexts’
Women Living Under Muslim Laws, 2010 [Link]
‘Understanding Islamic Feminism’
Conversation with Yoginder Sikand, The American Muslim, 2010, February [Link]
‘Broken Taboos in Post-Election Iran’
Middle East Report Online, 2009, December 17 [Link]
‘In Search of Equality: From London to Kuala Lumpur’
The Middle East in London, 2009, July/August pp 3-4. [Link]
‘How the door of Ijtihad was Opened and Closed: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Family Law Reform in Iran and Morocco’
Washington & Lee Law Review 64/42007, Fall pp 1499-1511. [Link]
‘When a Woman’s Hurt Becomes an Injury: ‘Hardship’ as Grounds for Divorce in Iran’
Hawwa: Journal of Women in the Middle East and the Islamic World 5/1, 2007, pp 111-26. [Link]
‘Negotiating the Forbidden: On Women and Sexual Love in Iranian Cinema’
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 27/3, 2007, pp 673-79. [Link]
‘The Politics and Hermeneutics of Hijab in Iran: From Confinement to Choice’
Muslim World Journal of Human Rights 4/1, 2007, Summer/Fall
Muslim Women’s Quest for Equality: Between Islamic Law and Feminism’
Critical Inquiry 32, 2006, pp 629-45. [Link]
Is Time on Iranian Women Protestors’ Side?’
in Middle East Report Online, 2006, June 16 [Link]
‘Islamic Law and Feminism: The Story of a Relationship’
Yearbook of Islamic & Middle Eastern Law 9, 2004, pp 32-42.
‘The Quest for Gender Justice – Emerging Feminist Voices in Islam’
Dossier 26, WLUML, 2004
Also in Islam 21 no.36 (www.islam21.net). [Link]
Fatemeh Haqiqatjoo and the Sixth Majles: A Woman in Her Own Right’
Middle East Report 233, 2004, pp34-38. [Link]
‘Les dessous de la réalisation de Divorce Iranian Style’
Ethnographiques.org n°6, 2004 [Link]
‘Divorce’
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, Vol 1, 2004
Macmillan Reference USA, pp 182-3.
‘Marriage’
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, Vol II, 2004

Macmillan Reference USA, p. 424.

‘Mahr (dower)’
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, Vol II, 2004

Macmillan Reference USA, pp 430-3. 

‘Nikah (marriage contract)’
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, Vol II, 2004

Macmillan Reference USA, p. 510.

‘Polygamy’
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, Vol II, 2004

Macmillan Reference USA, pp 552-553.

‘Shirin Ebadi’s Nobel Peace Prize Highlights Tension in Iran’
Middle East Report Online, 2003, October 27 [Link]
‘The Construction of Gender in Islamic Legal Thought: Strategies for Reform’
Hawwa: Journal of Women in the Middle East and the Islamic World, 1/1, 2003, pp 1-28. [Link]
‘The Conservative and Reformist Conflict over Women’s Rights in Iran’
International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society 16 (1), 2002, pp 37-53.
‘Iran’s Runaway Girls Challenge the Old Rules’
ISIM Newsletter 9, 2002, p. 23. [Link]
‘Iranian Cinema: Art, Society and the State’
Middle East Report (MERIP),No. 219, 2001,pp 26-29. [Link]
‘Debating gender with Ulema in Qom’
ISIM Newsletter 5, 2000, p. 21.
‘The Rise and Fall of Fa’ezeh Hashemi: Women in Iranian Elections’
Middle East Report (MERIP), Spring, 2001, No 218, pp 8-11. [Link]
‘Feminist Movement in Islamic’
Islamic Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1999

IX/5, pp. 498-503. [Link]

‘Family Law iii. In Modern Persia’
Encyclopedia Iranica 9, 1999, pp 192-96. [Link]
‘Feminism in the Islamic Republic’
Encyclopedia Iranica 9, 1999, pp 498-503.
‘Making “Divorce Iranian Style”’
ISIM Newsletter 2,1999, p. 17. [Link]
Rethinking Gender: Discussions with Ulama in the Islamic Republic’
Critique: A Journal for Critical Studies of the Middle East 13, 1998, pp 45-59. [Link]
‘Divorce and Women’s Options: Law and Practice in Iran’
Farzaneh: Journal of Women’s Studies and research 2 (7), 1995-96, pp 65-82.
‘ Redefining the Truth: Ahl-i Haqq and the Islamic Republic of Iran ’
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 21 (2), 1995, pp 211-28. [Link]
‘ Inner Truth and Outer History: the Two Worlds of Ahl-i Haqq of Kurdistan ’
International Journal of Middle East Studies 26/2, 1994, pp 267-85. [Link]
‘Paternity, Patriarchy and Matrifocality in the Shari‘a and in Practice: the cases of Iran and Morocco’
in Islamic Law: Ideals and Realities; Cambridge Anthropology 16 (2), 1992-1993, pp 22-40.
‘Contrast between Law and Practice for the Moroccan Family: Patriarchy and Matrifocality’
Morocco: Journal of Society for Moroccan Studies 1, 1991, pp 38-52.
‘Some Aspects of Changing Marriage Prestations in Rural Iran’
Journal of Comparative Family Studies 20 (2), 1989, pp 215-231.
‘Some Aspects of Changing Rural Economy in Iran’
International Journal of Middle East Studies 19, 1987, pp 394-412.
‘Wage Labour and Household Fission in Rural Iran’
Journal of Comparative Family Studies 18 (3), 1987, pp 445-461.
‘Divorce in Islamic Law and in Practice: the Case of Iran’
Cambridge Anthropology 11 (1), 1986, pp 41-69.