ABSTRACT
This chapter further tries to locate the Muslim women question in the global context and also explores the connection between the political field and Islam that shapes these women; this intersection produces the categories such as Muslim women’s secular, Islamic, Islamist, and piety activism in those political fields. This typology of activism also explores the relationship between political Islam and feminism in these societies and substantiates Muslim women’s creative response to their political field. These forms of activism have also highlighted women’s engagement with Muslim legal tradition and various organisations that facilitated women’s access to existing knowledge and also created new knowledge about women’s rights in Islam. Lastly, the chapter discusses that Muslim women’s activism in India cannot be moulded into a fixed shape or category; the specificity of the Indian political field has influenced Muslim women’s activism in a different but interesting manner. It also delineates the reasons behind using the term Muslim women’s activism in the Indian context. Muslim women’s activism in India can be defined as critical-religious-centric activism and explains the global, national, and local influences that have continuously ordained its current shape.
