This project begins from the lived experience of women who are told, implicitly or explicitly, that they must choose between religious devotion and feminist ethical conviction. It examines how meaning has been shaped, how authority has been constructed, and how women’s voices have been included, limited, or erased throughout Islamic history. Rather than arguing for reconciliation or incompatibility, the project asks what it means to inhabit this in-between space: who decides what Islam means, whose interpretations are treated as binding or unquestionable, and whether a woman can trust her own ethical judgment or is expected to defer to inherited authority, and how these tensions shape how women understand their faith and themselves.