The women’s movements that emerged in the Middle East in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to advance women’s legal, social, and economic status took on a new mission in the aftermath of World War I: to acquire political rights. Feminists in the newly established nation-states in Turkey, Iran, and the Arab world began to passionately campaign for the right to vote shortly after the end of war, employing different methods such as writing in the press, giving public speeches, organizing demonstrations and marches, and establishing links with other feminists around the world and in the region. Although the attempts of their Western counterparts to gain voting rights have been the subject of many scholarly works, the struggle of Middle Eastern suffragists have only recently begun to receive attention, and studied almost exclusively within the context of the nation-state that they operated in. This paper explores the suffrage movement in the Middle East from a comparative and transnational perspective by analyzing the origins, agendas, and strategies of the women in Turkey, Iran, and Egypt who campaigned for political rights. Examining the similarities and differences between their backgrounds, discourses, and methods, it discusses the Turkish, Iranian, and Egyptian suffragists in comparison to one another. Based on primary sources such as memoirs, women’s periodicals, newspapers, travel accounts, and reports of foreign officials and missionaries as well as secondary literature, this paper reveals the complex nature of the suffrage movements that gained momentum in different parts of the Middle East following World War I. It argues that while they differed in certain ways, the Turkish, Iranian, and Egyptian campaigns for women's political rights all drew their inspiration from an authentic blend of multiple sources: the rules of Islam, the needs of the nation, and the requirements of civilization.