The following interview was held between members of the “German Institute for Islamic Studies” (IfI), and the Egyptian lawyer, Rafiq Yousef: more...

Honor killings take place today not only in the eastern part of Turkey. In Germany, too, and in the other countries of Europe, women die “for reasons of honor”. Till now, German criminal more...

Honour killings are a pre-Islamic practice, that cannot be founded by Islamic theology. They are a characteristic of archaic, tribally organized societies, especially those found in the Middle East. more...

While the opinions of politically active Muslims (Islamists) or extremists have increasingly become media topics, liberal Muslims are presented in much less detail. Islamic feminism may be considered more...

Less widely known, however, is that international associations in Muslim countries have formulated their own human rights declarations in opposition to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights more...

When Islam is the subject, the topic “Women in Islam“ is also frequently discussed. This is not merely the result of controversial books on Islam (like Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses) or of the more...

There is only very little that can be said in general about all women in Islam. The differences in the circumstances of life created by the urban or rural environment are too large; the gap between more...

The public debate over women’s role in Islam tends in the West to centre round the issue of the head-scarf, seen as symbolizing women’s inferiority, yet not all practising Muslim women wear the scarf more...