The history of women's mosques in Chinese Islam
Subtitle: a mosque of their own
By: Maria Jaschok and Shui Jingjun.
Contributors: Shui, Jingjun.
Publisher: Curzon
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Richmond, Surrey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
Subjects: Muslim women -- China -- History; Mosques -- China -- History
Other titles: Mosque of their own
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-354) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I: Introduction; title: I A Mosque Of Their Own: Muslim Women, Chinese Islam; title: and Sexual Equality; title: PART II: From the Margins of Memory; title: II Scholarly Debates: Islamic Faith, Innovation (bid'a) and; title: Constructs of Femininity; title: III The Beginnings and History of a Female Religious Culture; title: IV Growth and Expansion of Women's Mosques and Schools; title: PART III: Women's Mosques, Nu Ahong and their Religious; title: Culture; title: V 'Look Not at the Evil and Hear It Not' - From Ancient Persian; title: Canons to Contemporary Female Sexuality; title: VI 'The Road to Allah's Commandments' - Conflicts of Loyalty; title: under Chinese State Law; title: VII From Dependence to Independence: Women's Mosques, Islamic; title: Patriarchy and the State; title: PART IV: Claiming Heaven; title: VIII Between Allah and Modernity: Re/Engendering the Past; title: IX Xiuti; 'From Head to Toe' - Shaming and Concealing the Body; title: X The Feminisation of Purgatory: Mediating Spiritual Faith and; title: Equality; title: PART V: Chinese Muslim Women: Communitas, Choices, and; title: Conversion; title: XI Aisha, A Chronicle of Conversion and Collective Survival; title: XII Lives and Testimonies: Living in God's Shadow; title: Yang Huizhen Ahong, Social Activist in Zhejiang; title: Ba Ahong, Henan, Preserving Female Religious Tradition; title: Yang Yinlian Ahong, Harbin, Heilongjiang: My Work; title: Report; title: Daughters-in-Law in an Ahong's Family, Recalled; title: by Shui Zhiying; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix I Profiles of Two Leading Women's Mosques and their; title: Religious Leadership; title: Appendix II Nusi in the Republican Era (1912-1949); title: Appendix III Questioning Hui and Han Women and Men on; title: Quality of Life (Survey); title: Appendix IV Unpublished Documentation on Central China's; title: Muslim Culture and Women's Lives (lodged with; title: Henan Provincial Library, Zhengzhou, Henan Province); title: Glossary.