Women in Islam and Muslim societies / Islam and gender: dilemmas in the changing Arab world / Gender issues and contemporary Quran interpretation / Islam, social change, and the reality of Arab women's lives / Feminism in an Islamic republic: "Years of hardship, years of growth" / Secularist and Islamist discourses on modernity in Egypt and the evolution of the postcolonial nation-state / Women and the state in Jordan: inclusion or exclusion? / Slow yet steady path to women's empowerment in Pakistan / Changing gender relations and the development process in Oman / Women and religion in Bahrain: an emerging identity / Gender, Islam, and the state: Kuwaiti women in struggle, pre-invasion to postliberation / Philippine Muslim women: tradition and change