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Record Nr.

UNINA9910746989103321

Autore

Petersen Jesper

Titolo

The making of a mosque with female imams : serendipities in the production of Danish Islams / / by Jesper Petersen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

90-04-52302-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 pages)

Collana

Muslim minorities ; ; Volume 40

Disciplina

305.420965

Soggetti

Feminism - Religious aspects - Islam

Imams (Mosque officers)

Islam - Denmark

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-295) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Chapter 1: Entering the field -- Chapter 2: Ethnographic methodology -- Chapter 3: Muslims in Denmark -- Chapter 4 Sherin Khankan -- Chapter 5: The emergence of a religious demand -- Chapter 6: The serendipitous spread of a story -- Chapter 7: Planning the founding of Femimam -- Chapter 8: The serendipitous emergence of an institution -- Chapter 9: The pop-up mosque and its social media adhan -- Chapter 10: The first Mariam Mosque -- Chapter 11: Politicized and commodified narratives of Sherin Khankan -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In the last decade a number of women-led mosques have emerged in Europe and North America. In The Making of a Mosque with Female Imams Jesper Petersen documents the serendipitous, yet predictable, emergence of the Mariam Mosque in Copenhagen.

In the last decade a number of women-led mosques have emerged in Europe and North America. In The Making of a Mosque with Female Imams Jesper Petersen documents the serendipitous, yet predictable, emergence of the Mariam Mosque in Copenhagen. The study first demonstrates that individuals’ facing the unpredictable plays a decisive role in social processes. This leads to an investigation of how serendipities are erased when narratives are erected retrospectively in



the form of commodified products, autobiographical narratives, and research. Furthermore, Petersen conceptualizes non-Muslims’ theological productions of Islam – Islam without the worship of Allah, so to speak – and demonstrates how this influences Muslim productions of Islam.