Women, Leadership, and Mosques: Changes in Contemporary Islamic AuthorityMasooda Bano, Hilary Kalmbach 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. |
Contents
Islamic Authority and the Study of Female Religious Leaders | 1 |
Male Invitation State Intervention and Female Initiative | 29 |
Introduction to Section I | 31 |
Female Ahong and Qingzhen Nüsi Womens Mosques in China | 37 |
Publicizing and Negotiating Womens Religious Authority in Morocco | 59 |
StateSponsored Female Preachers | 85 |
Gender Segregation and the Rise of Female Preachers in Saudi Arabia | 105 |
Female Religious Authority in TwentiethCentury Iran | 127 |
Chapter 26 Muslimahs Impact on and Acquisition of Islamic Religious Authority in Flanders | 301 |
Notes from Stuttgart Germany | 323 |
New Means of Legitimizing Female Authority in Contemporary Shīī Discourse | 345 |
Section III The Impact of Authority on Muslim Women Muslim Societies and Conceptions of Islamic Authority | 363 |
Introduction to Section III | 365 |
Youth Associations and Female Leadership in Swedish Mosques | 371 |
Female Preachers in Contemporary Egypt | 393 |
Muslim Women Activists in Indonesia | 413 |
The Growth of an International Muslim Womens Revivalist Movement from Syria 19602008 | 161 |
Limitations Spaces and Strategies for Teaching and Preaching | 185 |
Introduction to Section II | 187 |
Chapter 21 Leading by Example? Women Madrasah Teachers in Rural North India | 195 |
Chapter 22 Thinking for Oneself? Forms and Elements of Religious Authority in Dutch Muslim Womens Groups | 217 |
Contrasting the Religious Authority and Leadership of Two Muslim Women in Kazan | 235 |
Muslim Women as Keepers and Transmitters of Interpretive Domains in Contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina | 259 |
Female Leadership and Informal Authority in a Swiss Muslim Womens Association | 279 |
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