Abstract:
This paper argues that intersectionality provides Islamic feminism with a useful approach to understanding the lived experiences of Muslim women. In order to become truly emancipatory, however, intersectionality should be combined with a decolonial approach. Though de-centering the secular liberal ontology of mainstream western feminism and calling for a critical analysis of the global structures that produce and reproduce the relations of inequality that affect Muslim women, a decolonial intersectional approach can take the expanding field of Islamic feminism even further.
Keywords: Islamic feminism, decoloniality, intersectionality, feminism, gender.
