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Women in the mosque : a history of legal thought and social practice / / Marion Holmes Katz ; jacket design, Jordan Wannemacher



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Autore: Katz Marion Holmes <1967-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Women in the mosque : a history of legal thought and social practice / / Marion Holmes Katz ; jacket design, Jordan Wannemacher Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Chichester, England : , : Columbia University Press, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 417 pages)
Disciplina: 297.3/51082
Soggetto topico: Women (Islamic law)
Mosques (Islamic law)
Women in Islam
Persona (resp. second.): WannemacherJordan
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Women's Mosque Attendance as a Legal Problem -- 2. Reconstructing Practice -- 3. Debating Women's Mosque Access in Sixteenth- Century Mecca -- 4. Modern Developments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Juxtaposing Muslim scholars' debates over women's attendance in mosques with historical descriptions of women's activities within Middle Eastern and North African mosques, Marion Holmes Katz shows how over the centuries legal scholars' arguments have often reacted to rather than dictated Muslim women's behavior. Tracing Sunni legal positions on women in mosques from the second century of the Islamic calendar to the modern period, Katz connects shifts in scholarly terminology and argumentation to changing constructions of gender. Over time, assumptions about women's changing behavior through the lifecycle gave way to a global preoccupation with sexual temptation, which then became the central rationale for limits on women's mosque access. At the same time, travel narratives, biographical dictionaries, and religious polemics suggest that women's usage of mosque space often diverged in both timing and content from the ritual models constructed by scholars. Katz demonstrates both the concrete social and political implications of Islamic legal discourse and the autonomy of women's mosque-based activities. She also examines women's mosque access as a trope in Western travelers' narratives and the evolving significance of women's mosque attendance among different Islamic currents in the twentieth century.
Titolo autorizzato: Women in the mosque  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-231-53787-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910809477203321
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