Muslim leaders denounced the plans. The sheik of Cairo's Al-Azhar mosque, one of the top world's Islamic institutions, said Islam permits women to lead other women in prayer but not a congregation ...

Five days after the first woman-led, mixed gender Islamic prayer in New York, a second prayer took place in Boston. With more planned in the U.S., this push for public spiritual leadership by women in ...

c. 2006 Religion News Service TORONTO _ It's not often that one is asked to lead a grand mufti in prayer. Especially if one is a woman. Indeed, until ...

He also pointed to the requirement of Muslim men to attend Friday prayers, which, according to hadith, does not exist for Muslim women. “At the end of the day, these are narrations,” Khader said.

A woman prays during Friday Muslim prayers on Jan. 30, 2015 in what is being dubbed the first women’s-only mosque in the United States. Photo courtesy of Alexa Pilato ...

First Muslim Woman in Pa. House Had to Listen to Prayer for Jesus' Forgiveness: 'That Was Protest' "That was protest — that was not an invocation, that was not a prayer" By ...

A woman led an Islamic prayer service with men in the congregation despite criticism from Muslim religious leaders in the Middle East who complained that it violated tradition. Amina Wadud, a ...

A prayer offered by freshman Rep. Stephanie Borowicz, ... On the same day that the House swore in its first Muslim women member Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell, D-Philadelphia, ...

In New York City, a Muslim woman recently led men and women in prayer for the first time ever, according to organizers. In the days since, response from Islamic leaders at home and abroad has ...

UNDER ARMED guard, a woman broke with more than a thousand years of Islamic tradition to lead men and women in a prayer service yesterday in Manhattan. Amina Wadud said she wanted “to remove the ...