Women, leadership, and mosques : changes in contemporary Islamic authority
The volume brings together 23 tightly-edited case studies of female preachers in leadership positions within mosques and madrasas across the Muslim world and Muslim communities in the US and Europe. The reviewers of the volume note that it will be an extremely influential volume. According to one re...
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Brill
2011
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| Summary: | The volume brings together 23 tightly-edited case studies of female preachers in leadership positions within mosques and madrasas across the Muslim world and Muslim communities in the US and Europe. The reviewers of the volume note that it will be an extremely influential volume. According to one review, ‘I would consider it in the top 10% of works in the field because of this combination of breath and depth and definitely recommend that it must be published. The scholarship of the work is outstanding.’ According to the second reviewer, ‘It promises to become a standard academic source in the field.’ |
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