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
‘Feminism in the Islamic Republic’
Encyclopedia Iranica 91999
pp 498-503.
‘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.
‘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.
‘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.
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]
‘Understanding Islamic Feminism’
Conversation with Yoginder Sikand, The American Muslim2010, February
‘Criminalizing Sexuality: Zina Laws as Violence Against Women in Muslim Contexts’
Women Living Under Muslim Laws,2010
‘Islam and Feminism: Whose Islam? Whose Feminism?’
Contestation: Dialogue on Women’s Empowerment,Issue 1, Islam and Feminism.2010
‘Iranian responses to the “Arab spring”: appropriation and contestation’
OpenDemocracy2012, 29 February
‘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]
‘The Challenge of Islamic Feminism’
Gender and Research, Czech Academy of Science2019
pp. 108-122. [Link]