Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Foundational issues: understanding Muslim women -- Christ, the hope of Muslim women / Fran Lowe -- How to study women in their cultural contexts / Miriam Adeney -- Deep knowledge: understanding a popular Muslim worldview / Cynthia A. Strong -- Honor and shame in Muslim contexts / Laurel Chadwick -- Muslim family law and its implications for Christian ministry / Evelyne A. Reisacher -- pt. 2. Area studies: understanding Muslim worldviews -- Faith on camelback: reaching non Arabic-speaking, urban, less-educated women / Sarah Mullin -- Offering bread not stones: reaching educated Arabic-speaking Muslim women / Farah Al Hasd -- How will they hear? Reaching the Muslim women of Sub-Saharan Africa / LaNette W. Thompson -- Stories along the Silk Road: reaching women in Central Asia, Russia and China / Victoria Lindall -- A life of ironies: reaching South Asian educated urban Muslim women / Yvette Wray -- Christ in their midst: evangelism and church planting among Southeast Asian Muslim women / Mary Benett -- The unknown sect of Islam: reaching Wahhabi women / R.A. -- A mystic union: reaching Sufi women / Cynthia A. Strong -- A quest for identity: reaching second and third generation immigrant Muslim women / Farida Saidi -- pt. 3. Strategic issues: discipling women in Muslim contexts -- Communicating Christ in contexts of persecution / Beth Stricker -- Using Qur'anic themes for apologetics and witness / Yvette Wray -- Signs and symbols in the land / Elizabeth Edwardson -- Networking: forming and maintaining strategic partnerships / Janelle Metzger -- Disciplining Muslim-background believers / Annette Hall -- Leadership development for MBB women: models and resources / Mary Ann Cate -- pt. 4. Case studies: worldview transitions -- From newspaper ads to church: a case study in literature evangelism -- Joining God where He is at work: facilitating a church planting movement in Central Asia -- Combining local witness and non-residential church planting: a case study of evangelism in closed countries -- Mobilizing near-culture believers for prayer, evangelism and church planting: a case study in Southeast Asia -- Chronological Bible storytelling in East Africa: a case study in communicating Biblical truth -- Ministry to body soul and spirit: church planting in a South Asian village -- Sowing in tears: a tale from Beirut -- I Corinthians 13 for Muslim workers / Earlene Voss -- Appendixes.

Using original field research from eight different language and culture groups, A Worldview Approach to Ministry Among Muslim Women explores a variety of ministries among Muslim women and provides tools to analyze their effectiveness. With contributions from scholars, field workers and agency administrators, readers are encouraged in a holistic Muslim ministry perspective through in-depth studies in Muslim beliefs, anthropological tools, worldview analyses, case studies and explorations in strategic issues and discipleship. - Publisher.