Qur'an Verses involving women

2:178 retribution for murder, man or woman

2:187 sex during Ramadan

2:221 marrying unbelieving women

2:222-242 menstruation, divorce

2:282 women witnesses

3:14-17 heaven for men and women; "companions" in heaven

3:35-47  Mary, mother of Jesus

3:195 everyone, man and woman, rewarded for deeds

4:1-25 marriage, dowry, orphans, slaves, widows, inheritance, forbidden marriages

4:3 marry up to 4, with equal treatment

4:32 women's earnings

4:34 men are the support of women

4:35 reconciliation and "beating"

4:43 impurity after sexual relations

4:124 Paradise for men and women, similar verses 9:67-68, 9:71-72, 48:5-6, 57:12-13

4:127-130 women wanting divorce

4:176 inheritance

5:5 marrying Muslim women

5:6 purification after sex

5:38 cutting off hand of thief, man or woman

7:189 created from a single cell

9:87 women stay home in war, men cannot

12:21-34 and 50-53, story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife, or the wiles of women

13:23 Paradise for men and their families

16:57-60 condemning sadness at birth of a daughter

16:72 God gives mates of your own kind

16:97 God's reward for men and women

24:2 100 lashes for adultery

24:3-10 testimony about adultery and punishment for false testimony

24:23 punishment for slandering chaste women

24:25 bad men and bad women

24:30-31 modest dress

24:32-34 command to marry

24:58-61 who may see whom and when

27:22-47  story of the Queen of Saba (Sheba) and Sulayman (Soloman)

33:6  Prophet's wives--the Mothers of Believers

33:28-34 instructions to the Prophet's wives

33:35-36 men and women--the main "equality" verse

33:37-40  Muhammad's special role and permission to marry more wives

33:50-52 Muhammad's special rights in marriage

33:53 Prophet's wives behind a screen

33:55 who may see whom

33:58 slandering believing women

33:59  Prophet's wives should cover themselves

33:73 God punishes and rewards men and women

37: 48-49 In Paradise beatiful maidens wait on the believer, and also beautiful young boys--similar verses 44:54, 52:20, 55:14-22, 34, 36-38, 56, 70, 74, 76:19

37: 149-151 God has no sons or daughters, and related verses, 43:16-20, 53:19-23

49:11 women should not laugh at each other

57: 18-19 men and women get reward

58:1-4 discouraging divorce

60:10-12 believing women and the women's oath

65:1-6 regulating divorce

66:1-5 Prophet's admonition to his wives

66:10-12 examples of the wives of other prophets

81:8 the girl buried alive

111:4 curse on the wife of Abu Lahab