Articles

Articles
Articles
‘Divorce in Islamic Law and in Practice: the Case of Iran’
Cambridge Anthropology 11 (1)1986

pp 41-69.



‘Wage Labour and Household Fission in Rural Iran’
Journal of Comparative Family Studies 18 (3)1987

pp 445-461.


‘Some Aspects of Changing Rural Economy in Iran’
International Journal of Middle East Studies 191987

pp 394-412.


‘Some Aspects of Changing Marriage Prestations in Rural Iran’
Journal of Comparative Family Studies 20 (2)1989

pp 215-231.


‘Contrast between Law and Practice for the Moroccan Family: Patriarchy and Matrifocality’
Morocco: Journal of Society for Moroccan Studies 11991

pp 38-52.


‘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.


‘ Inner Truth and Outer History: the Two Worlds of Ahl-i Haqq of Kurdistan ’
International Journal of Middle East Studies 26/21994

pp 267-85. [Link]


‘ 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]


‘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.


Rethinking Gender: Discussions with Ulama in the Islamic Republic’
Critique: A Journal for Critical Studies of the Middle East 131998

pp 45-59. [Link]


‘Making “Divorce Iranian Style”’
ISIM Newsletter 21999

p. 17. [Link]


‘Feminism in the Islamic Republic’
Encyclopedia Iranica 91999

pp 498-503.


‘Family Law iii. In Modern Persia’
Encyclopedia Iranica 91999

pp 192-96. [Link]

‘The Rise and Fall of Fa’ezeh Hashemi: Women in Iranian Elections’
Middle East Report (MERIP), Spring 2001, No 218

 pp 8-11. [Link]

‘Debating gender with Ulema in Qom’
ISIM Newsletter 52000

p. 21.

‘Iranian Cinema: Art, Society and the State’
Middle East Report (MERIP),No. 2192001

pp 26-29. [Link]


‘Iran’s Runaway Girls Challenge the Old Rules’
ISIM Newsletter 92002

p. 23. [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.


‘The Construction of Gender in Islamic Legal Thought: Strategies for Reform’
Hawwa: Journal of Women in the Middle East and the Islamic World, 1/12003

pp 1-28. [Link]

‘Shirin Ebadi’s Nobel Peace Prize Highlights Tension in Iran’
Middle East Report Online2003, October 27

[Link]

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

Macmillan Reference USA, pp 552-553.


‘Nikah(marriage contract)’
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, Vol II2004

Macmillan Reference USA, p. 510.


‘Mahr (dower)’
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, Vol II2004

Macmillan Reference USA, pp 430-3. ‘


‘Marriage’
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, Vol II2004

Macmillan Reference USA, p. 424.


‘Divorce’
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, Vol 12004

Macmillan Reference USA, pp 182-3.


‘Les dessous de la réalisation de Divorce Iranian Style’
Ethnographiques.org n°62004

[Link]


‘Fatemeh Haqiqatjoo and the Sixth Majles: A Woman in Her Own Right’
Middle East Report 2332004

pp34-38. [Link]


‘The Quest for Gender Justice – Emerging Feminist Voices in Islam’
Dossier 26, WLUML2004

Also in Islam 21 no.36 (www.islam21.net). [Link]


‘Islamic Law and Feminism: The Story of a Relationship’
Yearbook of Islamic & Middle Eastern Law 92004

pp 32-42.

Is Time on Iranian Women Protestors’ Side?’
in Middle East Report Online2006, June 16

[Link]


Muslim Women’s Quest for Equality: Between Islamic Law and Feminism’
Critical Inquiry 322006

pp 629-45. [Link]


‘The Politics and Hermeneutics of Hijab in Iran: From Confinement to Choice’,
Muslim World Journal of Human Rights 4/12007, Summer/Fall
‘Negotiating the Forbidden: On Women and Sexual Love in Iranian Cinema’
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 27/32007

pp 673-79. [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 5/12007

pp 111-26. [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]

‘In Search of Equality: From London to Kuala Lumpur’
The Middle East in London2009, July/August

pp 3-4. [Link]


‘Broken Taboos in Post-Election Iran’
Middle East Report Online2009, December 17

[Link]


‘Understanding Islamic Feminism’
Conversation with Yoginder Sikand, The American Muslim2010, February

[Link]


‘Criminalizing Sexuality: Zina Laws as Violence Against Women in Muslim Contexts’
Women Living Under Muslim Laws,2010

[Link]


‘Islam and Feminism: Whose Islam? Whose Feminism?’
Contestation: Dialogue on Women’s Empowerment,Issue 1, Islam and Feminism.2010
‘Beyond ‘Islam’ vs ‘Feminism’
IDS Bulletin Volume 42 Number 12011, January

pp 67-77. [Link]


‘Islam y feminismo: la apertura de un Nuevo dialog’,
Boletin ecos, no 14, marzo-mayo2011

[Link]

‘Iranian responses to the “Arab spring”: appropriation and contestation’
OpenDemocracy2012, 29 February

[Link]


‘Decoding the “DNA of Patriarchy” in Muslim Family Laws’
OpenDemocracy2012, 21 May

[Link]

‘Feminist voices in Islam: promise and potential’
OpenDemocracy2012, 19 November

[Link]

‘How to Challenge Patriarchal Ethics of Muslim Legal Tradition’
OpenDemocracy2013, 13 May

[Link]

‘Out of This Dead-end’
Men in Islam, Critical Muslim 82013

[Link]

‘Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition’
OpenDemocracy2015, 6 April

[Link]

‘Honouring Fatima Mernissi’
Musawah2016, February

[Link]

‘Challenges and Complicities’
Abdolkarim Sorush and Gender – Princeton University

[Link]

‘The Islamic Republic’s War on Women’,
Foreign Policy2016, 29 August

[Link]

‘The Feminist Encounter with Muslim Legal Tradition’,
Samyukta: A Journal of Gender and Culture, special Issue, Vol. XVII, No 12017, January

pp. 48-62.


‘Olfa Youssef’s book, The Perplexity of a Muslim Woman: Over Inheritance, Marriage and Homosexuality’
Hypatia Reviews Online2018

[Link]


‘Feminist Movement in Islamic’
Islamic Encyclopaedia Iranica1999

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

‘The Challenge of Islamic Feminism’
Gender and Research, Czech Academy of Science2019

pp. 108-122. [Link]