Women, Leadership, and Mosques. Changes in Contemporary by Masooda Bano, Hilary E Kalmbach

By Masooda Bano, Hilary E Kalmbach

The recognition of lady management in mosques and madrassas is an important switch from a lot historic perform, signalling the mainstream attractiveness of a few type of lady Islamic authority in lots of locations. This quantity investigates the various variety of lady spiritual management found in modern Muslim groups in South, East and primary Asia, the center East, Africa, Europe, and North the US, with chapters discussing its emergence, the constraints positioned upon it, and its wider influence, in addition to the actual and digital areas utilized by girls to set up and consolidate their authority. will probably be priceless as a reference textual content, because it is the 1st to compile research of lady Islamic management in geographically and ideologically-diverse Muslim groups worldwide.

Biographical note
Masooda Bano holds an ESRC Fellowship on the Oxford division of foreign improvement. She reports Islamic activities in comparative context. Her monograph, The Rational Believer: offerings and judgements within the Madrasas of Pakistan, is approaching with Cornell collage Press.

Hilary Kalmbach is the Sir Christopher Cox Junior Fellow at New collage, collage of Oxford. Her learn makes a speciality of altering buildings of Islamic authority, wisdom and schooling within the glossy center East. Her present venture situates Cairo’s Dar al-‘Ulum within the context of twentieth-century social, non secular and linguistic adjustments.

Contributors to the amount comprise PETRA BLEISCH BOUZAR, NATHAL M. DESSING, ROJA FAZAELI, JULIANE HAMMER, MONA HASSAN, SARAH ISLAM, MARIA JASCHOK, PATRICIA JEFFERY, ROGER JEFFERY, CRAIG JEFFREY, MIRJAM KÜNKLER, PETRA KUPPINGER, UTA LEHMANN, NICK MICINSKI, HIROKO MINESAKI, PIA KARLSSON MINGANTI, MATTHEW PIERCE, CATHARINA RAUDVERE, MARGARET J. RAUSCH, AMÉLIE LE RENARD, RIEM SPIELHAUS, NELLY VAN DOORN-HARDER, and ELS VANDERWAEREN

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