Women's empowerment in the Muslim community in SE QLD

This paper is part of a developing article that examines the role of Muslim women in religious knowledge transmission in Southeast Queensland. While Muslim women’s contributions to Islamic learning are historically grounded and well documented, dominant public narratives in Western contexts continue to portray them primarily as oppressed or marginalized. In this study, I seek to move beyond such representations by exploring how Muslim women locally participate in, shape, and expand religious knowledge practices. I argue that although women have traditionally transmitted Islamic knowledge within domestic and informal settings, their contemporary engagement increasingly extends into public, institutional, and digital spheres. In doing so, they are not only sustaining religious literacy but also actively contributing to community formation and social cohesion.

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