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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.
Price: $80.00
Pages: 582
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Women and Gender: The Middle East and the Islamic World
Publication Date:
28 January 2016
ISBN: 9789004311879
Format: Paperback
About the hardback:
“The book represents a somehow oblique – and original – look at an absolutely magmatic universe where women are observed while they achieve “authority” and “leadership” in Muslim contexts […].”
Manuela Galaverni in Islamochristiana 38 (2012), 330-331.
“…an erudite, nuanced and detailed exploration of religious authority. […] …an invaluable book.”
From: The Muslim World Book Review34.4 (2014).
“The book represents a somehow oblique – and original – look at an absolutely magmatic universe where women are observed while they achieve “authority” and “leadership” in Muslim contexts […].”
Manuela Galaverni in Islamochristiana 38 (2012), 330-331.
“…an erudite, nuanced and detailed exploration of religious authority. […] …an invaluable book.”
From: The Muslim World Book Review34.4 (2014).
Masooda Bano is Associate Professor at the Oxford Department of International Development. She studies Islamic movements in comparative context. She is the author of The Rational Believer: Choices and Decisions in the Madrasas of Pakistan (Cornell University Press 2012) and has co-edited Shaping Global Islamic Discourses: The Role of al-Azhar, al-Medina, and al-Mustafa (Edinburgh University Press 2015).
Dr Hilary Kalmbach is a cultural and social historian based at the University of Sussex. She is the first director of MENACS, the Middle East and North Africa Centre at Sussex. Her research focuses on Islam and its interaction with Middle Eastern cultures and societies over the past 200 years, with particular attention paid to authority, knowledge, education, and gender. Her article, "Social and Religious Change in Damascus: One Case of Female Islamic Religious Authority," won the inaugural British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Graduate Article Prize.
Contributors to the volume include 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
Dr Hilary Kalmbach is a cultural and social historian based at the University of Sussex. She is the first director of MENACS, the Middle East and North Africa Centre at Sussex. Her research focuses on Islam and its interaction with Middle Eastern cultures and societies over the past 200 years, with particular attention paid to authority, knowledge, education, and gender. Her article, "Social and Religious Change in Damascus: One Case of Female Islamic Religious Authority," won the inaugural British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Graduate Article Prize.
Contributors to the volume include 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