- female
- Amina Wadud is a controversial Islamic feminist and scholar. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and, during graduate school,...
- female, 41 years old
- Irshad Manji (born 1968) is a Canadian feminist Muslim, author, journalist, and activist. She is a well-known critic of radical Islam and orthodox...
- female, 62 years old
- Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Children's Rights Support Association in Iran. On December 10, 2003, Ebadi...
- female
- Asma Barlas is an academic educated in Pakistan and the United States. She is the Director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and...
- female
- Asra Q. Nomani , a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal for 15 years, is the author of "Standing Alone: An American Woman's Struggle for the...
- female, 69 years old
- Fatema Mernissi is a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist. Born in Fez in 1940, she studied political science at the Sorbonne and at Brandeis...
- male, deceased (1910)
- Qasim Amin (1863-1908) was an Egyptian jurist and one of the founders of the Egyptian National Movement and Cairo University. Born to an Upper...
- female, 78 years old
- Nawal El Saadawi is an Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician. She was born in Kafr Ta hla village on the banks of the Nile. She has...
- female, deceased (2007)
- Zilla Huma Usman (September 16, 1971 - February 20, 2007) was a Pakistani politician and activist for women's rights. While serving as the...
- female, deceased (1998)
- Shamima Shaikh was South Africa's most well-known Muslim women's rights activist. She was a notable Islamic feminist. She was born in Louis...
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