Women in Christianity and Islam

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Articles examining the role, status, and dignity of women within Islamic sources compared with biblical teaching, addressing common Muslim claims and misunderstandings.

Answering Islam – Sam Shamoun TheologySam Shamoun

Overview articles

• Women in the Qur'an
• Muhammad's Low Opinion of Women
• Top ten rules in the Quran that oppress and insult women
• Women in the Bible: [Part 1], [Part 2]
• Women in Islam: [Part 1], [Part 2], [Part 3], [Part 4]

Books

• The Position of Women in Islam
• The Place of Women in Pure Islam
• The Place of Women in Christianity & Islam

Discussion of individual aspects

• Did Allah forget the wives?
• 'Iddah rules for divorced and widowed women
• The majority in hell are women?
• Muhammad and the treatment of wives
• Women under Islamic Law -- an Iranian lawyer reports about systematic inequality and severe oppression
• New Study Shows Polygamy Leads to Higher Levels of Crime, Violence, Poverty, and Gender Inequality

Answers to various Muslim Polemics

• Women In Islam Versus Women In The Judaeo-Christian Tradition: The Myth And The Reality
• Responses to Dr. Jamal Badawi's papers:
  • The Status of Women in Islam
  • Gender Equity In Islam
• The Rights of Women in the Bible and Quran (in answer to Osama Abdallah's challenge)
  • Second response to Osama Abdallah:
    Revisiting the case for the honorific position of women in Holy Bible in contrast to their degradation in Islam:
    [Part 1], [Part 2]
• Domestic Violence in the Quran
• To Beat Or Not To Beat
• Why Christians do not allow Polygamy
• The "more women than men" argument
• Overview on web articles on Women in Islam
• Comparison: Women's rights before Islam and according to Islam

Further links of related interest:

• Christian Distinctives -- Women in the Heart of God
• Women of Faith
• A Woman's voice
• What about those who say that Christianity promotes male domination over women?
• Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
• Christians for Biblical Equality
• The Bible and gender-inclusive language
• Fascinating Womanhood
• Women and Religion

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