The education of girls and women is universally accepted in more than 200 countries and territories, including nearly 50 Muslim-majority nations. But Afghanistan’s hard-line Islamist Taliban rulers ...

The issue of the right of Afghan girls and women to education has become a matter of growing international concern since the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban. Aware of the fact that in order to ...

For his day, the Prophet Muhammad was a feminist. The doctrine he laid out as the revealed word of God considerably improved the status of women in 7th century Arabia. In local pagan society, it was ...

Indonesia has shown that education based on Islamic precepts is not incompatible with the expansion of education to girls and women. Indonesia has the world’s largest Islamic education system.

The second session of the “The Islamic World Today: Issues and Perspectives” conference featured two female speakers, both members of the Islamic community, on Monday. Each of them has studied and ...

Since gaining power in August 2021, the Afghan Taliban, following a unique normative mixture of Pashtun culture and Islamic law, have closed universities, colleges, and secondary and primary schools ...

Gunia was a reporter for TIME based in Hong Kong. Indonesian Muslim women perform the first 'Tarawih' prayer on the eve of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan at The Grand Mosque of Bandung on April 2, ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The minister of higher education in the Taliban government on Thursday defended his decision to ban women from universities — a decree that had triggered a global backlash.

Daisy Khan has devoted her career to fighting Islamophobia, uplifting women and building bridges between Muslims and other faith groups. In her work, she has often confronted bias against women in ...