There’s a small but increasingly influential group of Islamic feminists in India. They may not be as powerful as the senior maulvis who head leading Islamic seminaries or run Muslim Personal Law Boards and Sharia courts, both Shia and Sunni. But this band of non-conformist women is silently and successfully ushering in change.
They may not equal the audacity of the bra-burning feminists of several decades ago, but they’ve hit hard at the patriarchal and misogynist elements in Muslim society.