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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337711303321

Autore

Fewkes Jacqueline H

Titolo

Locating Maldivian Women’s Mosques in Global Discourses / / by Jacqueline H. Fewkes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-13585-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 pages)

Disciplina

305.486971

297.355495

Soggetti

Ethnology

Religion and sociology

Ethnology—Asia

Culture

Islam

Sociocultural Anthropology

Ethnography

Sociology of Religion

Asian Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

In this ethnographic examination of women’s mosques in the Maldives, anthropologist Jacqueline H. Fewkes probes how the existence of these separate buildings—where women lead prayers for other women—intersect with larger questions about gender, space, and global Muslim communities. Bringing together ethnographic insight with historical accounts, this volume develops an understanding of the particular religious and cultural trends in the Maldives that have given rise to these unique socio-religious institutions. As Fewkes considers women’s spaces in the Maldives as a practice apart from contemporary global Islamic customs, she interrogates the intersections between local, national, and transnational communities in the development of Islamic



spaces, linking together the role of nations in the formation of Muslim social spaces with transnational conceptualizations of Islamic gendered spaces. Using the Maldivian women’s mosque as a starting point, this book addresses the roles of both the nation and the global Muslim ummah in locating gendered spaces within discourses about gender and Islam.