In a time where Islamists are trying their best to achieve what they call the Islamic project, and between a tarnished image of Islam and some extremist trying to put women back home, it has never been more essential to truly understand what Islam truly feels about women. So get to Diwan and buy yourself a copy of the late scholar Gamal El Banna’s controversial book Al Mar’ah Al Muslima Bayn Tahrir Al Quraan Wa Takyid Al Fokaha'(The Muslim Lady: Between being liberated by the Quraan and enchained by the Shari’ah Jurists).

The book argues that Islam has given women full rights and freedoms as men but that some scholars and jurists have misinterpreted the meanings and teachings of Islam to limit women’s freedoms: An essential read in feminism and Islam and will shed light on various issues we see today.