Riffat Hassan (born 1943) is a Pakistani-American theologian and a leading Islamic feminist scholar of the Qur'an.
Hassan claims the Qur'an upholds rights to life, respect, justice, freedom, knowledge, sustenance, work, and privacy, among others.
[5] In February 1999, she founded The International Network for the Rights of Female Victims of Violence in Pakistan, which works against so-called honor killings.
[3] She also wrote the eleventh chapter of Transforming the Faiths of our Fathers: Women who Changed American Religion (2004), edited by Ann Braude.
She then draws out the specific issues Muslim women face in practice including marital problems and divorce, polygamy, and segregations and veiling.
[7] She ends the article with a push towards the growth of "an educated group of persons who understand Islam to be a religion of justice and compassion" (62).