Two journalists, experts on Islamic questions, raise important questions on the conditions of the Moslem woman. Anna BARDUCCI faces the theme in an historical key and suggests the wives of Mohammed as examples of autonomous and enterprising women, quite opposite to the stereotype accredited to the collective imagination. Farian SABAHI, on the contrary, concentrates on the current situation and finds in the Islamic feminist movement, with its peculiarities, not only an instrument to reconcile the Koran and the patriarchal customs, but also a means of accelerating the process of social and cultural integration with the West. Two different analyses, therefore, poised between the past and the present, both sharing, though, the awareness of the centrality of the female figure also for the future of the Islamic world.