Women, leadership and mosques
Subtitle: changes in contemporary Islamic   authority
By: edited by Masooda Bano and Hilary Kalmbach
Series: Women and gender -- v. 11
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004211469
Subjects: Conduct of life; Muslim women; Religious life; Sex role; Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Islamic authority and the study of female religious leaders / Hilary Kalmbach; title: Sources of authority : female Ahong and Qingzhen Nusi (women's mosques) in China / Maria Jaschok; title: Women mosque preachers and spiritual guides : publicizing and negotiating women's religious authority in Morocco / Margaret J. Rausch; title: Reshaping religious authority in contemporary Turkey : state-sponsored female preachers / Mona Hassan; title: From quranic circles to the internet : gender segregation and the rise of female preachers in Saudi Arabia / Amelie Le Renard; title: The life of two mujtahidahs : female religious authority in twentieth-century Iran / Mirjam Kunkler and Roja Fazaeli; title: The Qubaysiyyat : the growth of an international muslim women's revivalist movement from Syria (1960-2008) / Sarah Islam; title: Leading by example-women madrasah teachers in rural North India / Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery, and Craig Jeffrey; title: Thinking for oneself? forms and elements of religious authority in Dutch muslim women's groups / Nathal M. Dessing; title: Celebrating miss muslim pageants and opposing rock concerts : contrasting the religious authority and leadership of two muslim women in Kazan / N. R. Micinski; title: Textual and ritual command : muslim women as keepers and transmitters of interpretive domains in contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina / Catharina Raudvere; title: "She is always present" : female leadership and informal authority in a Swiss muslim women's association / Petra Bleisch Bouzar; title: Muslimahs' impact on and acquisition of islamic religious authority in Flanders / Els Vanderwaeren; title: Women, leadership, and participation in mosques and beyond : notes from Stuttgart, Germany / Petra Kuppinger; title: Remembering Fatimah : new means of legitimizing female authority in contemporary Shifi discourse / Matthew Pierce; title: Challenging from within : youth associations and female leadership in Swedish mosques / Pia Karlsson Minganti; title: Gender strategy and authority in islamic discourses : female preachers in contemporary Egypt / Hiroko Minesaki; title: Translating text to context : muslim women activists in Indonesia / Pieternella Van Doorn-Harder; title: Making islam relevant : female authority and representation of Islam in Germany / Riem Spielhaus; title: Activism as embodied Tafsir : negotiating women's authority, leadership, and space in north america / Juliane Hammer; title: Women's rights to mosque space : access and participation in cape town mosques / Uta Christina Lehmann; title: Female leadership in mosques : an evolving narrative / Masooda Bano.