Women, leadership and mosques : changes in contemporary Islamic authority /
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Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 581 p.). |
Language: | English |
Series: | Women and gender ; v. 11 |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8924291 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Islamic authority and the study of female religious leaders / Hilary Kalmbach
- Sources of authority : female Ahong and Qingzhen Nusi (women's mosques) in China / Maria Jaschok
- Women mosque preachers and spiritual guides : publicizing and negotiating women's religious authority in Morocco / Margaret J. Rausch
- Reshaping religious authority in contemporary Turkey : state-sponsored female preachers / Mona Hassan
- From quranic circles to the internet : gender segregation and the rise of female preachers in Saudi Arabia / Amelie Le Renard
- The life of two mujtahidahs : female religious authority in twentieth-century Iran / Mirjam Kunkler and Roja Fazaeli
- The Qubaysiyyat : the growth of an international muslim women's revivalist movement from Syria (1960-2008) / Sarah Islam
- Leading by example-women madrasah teachers in rural North India / Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery, and Craig Jeffrey
- Thinking for oneself? forms and elements of religious authority in Dutch muslim women's groups / Nathal M. Dessing
- Celebrating miss muslim pageants and opposing rock concerts : contrasting the religious authority and leadership of two muslim women in Kazan / N. R. Micinski
- Textual and ritual command : muslim women as keepers and transmitters of interpretive domains in contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina / Catharina Raudvere
- "She is always present" : female leadership and informal authority in a Swiss muslim women's association / Petra Bleisch Bouzar
- Muslimahs' impact on and acquisition of islamic religious authority in Flanders / Els Vanderwaeren
- Women, leadership, and participation in mosques and beyond : notes from Stuttgart, Germany / Petra Kuppinger
- Remembering Fatimah : new means of legitimizing female authority in contemporary Shifi discourse / Matthew Pierce
- Challenging from within : youth associations and female leadership in Swedish mosques / Pia Karlsson Minganti
- Gender strategy and authority in islamic discourses : female preachers in contemporary Egypt / Hiroko Minesaki
- Translating text to context : muslim women activists in Indonesia / Pieternella Van Doorn-Harder
- Making islam relevant : female authority and representation of Islam in Germany / Riem Spielhaus
- Activism as embodied Tafsir : negotiating women's authority, leadership, and space in north america / Juliane Hammer
- Women's rights to mosque space : access and participation in cape town mosques / Uta Christina Lehmann
- Female leadership in mosques : an evolving narrative / Masooda Bano.