<![CDATA[This study examines how pesantren-based female ulama negotiate religious authority in interpreting gender issues through social media. Focusing on three Indonesian figures, Ning Imaz Fatimatuz Zahra, Ning Sheila Hasina, and Ning Nadia Abdurrahman, the article analyzes selected YouTube videos that address gender justice, women’s roles, and Qur’anic interpretation. Using a qualitative approach and Norman Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis, the study examines three dimensions: textual construction, discourse practice, and sociocultural practice. The findings show that the three figures construct gender-just interpretations through different textual strategies. Ning Imaz frames gender discourse through justice, fitrah, and maslahah; Ning Sheila employs fiqh reasoning to reread women’s domestic and public roles; and Ning Nadia emphasizes theological equality through Qur’anic verses on faith and righteous deeds. At the level of discourse practice, their authority is negotiated through two modes of circulation: a popular-institutional model represented by NU Online and an academic-intellectual model represented by Universitas Islam Tribakti. Socioculturally, these practices demonstrate that social media does not replace traditional pesantren authority, but expands the ways it is articulated, distributed, and received in the digital public sphere. The study argues that female ulama from pesantren emerge as authoritative producers of gender discourse by combining scholarly sanad, institutional legitimacy, and digital communication strategies.]]>
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