TY - BOOK ID - 85465758 TI - Female Islamic education movements PY - 2017 SN - 1108102514 1108102913 1108103316 1108104924 1316986721 1108103723 1107188830 1316638618 9781316638613 9781107188839 1108100112 9781316986721 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Islamic modernism. KW - Islamic renewal. KW - Muslim women KW - Sex differences in education. KW - Women in Islam. KW - Islam KW - Education KW - Islamic reform KW - Islamic revivalism KW - Islamic revivalist movement KW - Ṣaḥwah (Islam) KW - Religious awakening KW - Wahhābīyah KW - Modernism, Islamic KW - Education. KW - Reform KW - Renewal KW - Sex differences KW - Women - Social conditions - Islamic countries KW - Women's rights - Islamic countries KW - Women - Education - Islamic countries KW - Islamic modernism KW - Islamic renewal KW - Muslim women - Education KW - Sex differences in education KW - Women in Islam KW - Women KW - Women's rights KW - Religious studies KW - Religious texts KW - Organizations KW - Participation KW - Book UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85465758 AB - Since the 1970s, movements aimed at giving Muslim women access to the serious study of Islamic texts have emerged across the world. In this book, Masooda Bano argues that the creative spirit that marked the rise and consolidation of Islam, whereby Islam inspired serious intellectual engagement to create optimal societal institutions, can be found within these education movements. Drawing on rich ethnographic material from Pakistan, northern Nigeria and Syria, Bano questions the restricted notion of agency associated with these movements, exploring the educational networks which have attracted educated, professional and culturally progressive Muslim women to textual study, thus helping to reverse the most damaging legacy of colonial rule in Muslim societies: the isolation of modern and Islamic knowledge. With its comparative approach, this will appeal to those studying and researching the role of women across Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, as well as the wider Muslim world. ER -