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Women, leadership and mosques : changes in contemporary Islamic authority
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ISSN: 15707628 ISBN: 128335666X 9786613356666 9004209360 9781283356664 9789004209367 9789004211469 9004211462 6613356662 Year: 2012 Volume: 11 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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The acceptance of female leadership in mosques and madrassas is a significant change from much historical practice, signalling the mainstream acceptance of some form of female Islamic authority in many places. This volume investigates the diverse range of female religious leadership present in contemporary Muslim communities in South, East and Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and North America, with chapters discussing its emergence, the limitations placed upon it, and its wider impact, as well as the physical and virtual spaces used by women to establish and consolidate their authority. It will be invaluable as a reference text, as it is the first to bring together analysis of female Islamic leadership in geographically and ideologically-diverse Muslim communities worldwide.

Becoming muslim: Western women's conversions to islam
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ISBN: 1403976112 9781403976116 0230616682 9786611366940 1281366943 0312376219 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York Palgrave MacMillan

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While Islam has become a controversial topic in the West, a growing number of Westerners find powerful meaning in Islam. Becoming Muslim is an ethnographic study based on in-depth interviews with Swedish and American women who have converted to Islam.


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Gender hierarchy in the Qurʼān : medieval interpretations, modern responses
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ISBN: 9781107613935 1107613930 9781107041523 110704152X 9781139649759 1316255190 131623438X 1316236277 1316249514 1316251403 1316253295 1316247619 1139649752 1316245721 9781316247617 9781316249512 9781316236277 9781316234389 9781316236277 9781316255193 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book explores how medieval and modern Muslim religious scholars ('ulamā') interpret gender roles in Qur'ānic verses on legal testimony, marriage, and human creation. Citing these verses, medieval scholars developed increasingly complex laws and interpretations upholding a male-dominated gender hierarchy; aspects of their interpretations influence religious norms and state laws in Muslim-majority countries today, yet other aspects have been discarded entirely. Karen Bauer traces the evolution of their interpretations, showing how they have been adopted, adapted, rejected, or replaced over time, by comparing the Qur'ān with a wide range of Qur'ānic commentaries and interviews with prominent religious scholars from Iran and Syria. At times, tradition is modified in unexpected ways: learned women argue against gender equality, or Grand Ayatollahs reject sayings of the Prophet, citing science instead. This innovative and engaging study highlights the effects of social and intellectual contexts on the formation of tradition, and on modern responses to it.

Women embracing Islam: gender and conversion in the West
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ISBN: 0292713029 0292712731 9780292712737 9780292713024 Year: 2006 Publisher: Austin University of Texas Press

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Dit boek gaat over de bekering van westerse vrouwen tot de islam. De essays in het boek zijn geschreven naar aanleiding van een symposium 'gender and conversion to islam'. De auteurs komen uit verschillende disciplines: sociologie, antropologie, geschiedeniswetenschap en theologie. Er wordt nagegaan waarom westerse vrouwen zich bekeren tot de islam en wat de impact hiervan is op hun eigen leven en op hun omgeving. De auteurs hebben daarvoor gebruik gemaakt van talrijke getuigenissen en interviews met bekeerde vrouwen in de Verenigde Staten, de Scandinavische landen, Duitsland, Nederland, het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Zuid-Afrika.

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