THE WOMEN'S KHUTBAH BOOK, contemporary sermons on spirituality and justice from around the world, with an edited collection of new khutbahs

249pp., paperback, First SA Edition, Johannesburg, 2023.

First published in the USA in 2022.

A collection of religious sermons (khutbahs) by contemporary Muslim women in South Africa, Senegal, Egypt, Malaysia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Canada, Mexico, the United States, Germany, Denmark, and the United Kingdom.

“Shaikh and Seedat interweave inspiring sermons by present-day Muslim women with the eloquent voices of historical women, bringing intersecting experiences of injustice to the center of Muslim ethics. The result - an original and transformative feminist theology - is a pleasure to read.” Ziba Mir-Hosseini, author of Journeys Toward Gender Equality in Islam

“This delightful, inspiring book enables ‘ordinary’ women (and men) to transcend the limits of the private and reshape Muslim publics. The khutbahs collected here have created a world not seen before, embodying, in the beautiful words of their editors, ‘a tafsir of possibility.’"  Gabeba Baderoon, Pennsylvania State University

Sa’diyya Shaikh is Associate Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Cape Town and author of Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn 'Arabī, gender, and sexuality.

Fatima Seedat is Head of the Department of African Feminist Studies at the University of Cape Town.