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Women in the mosque : a history of legal thought and social practice
- Title
- Women in the mosque : a history of legal thought and social practice / Marion Holmes Katz.
- Author
- Katz, Marion Holmes, 1967-
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
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Details
- Description
- viii, 417 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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."--Publisher's Web site.
- Subjects
- Islam
- Kvinnouppfattning
- Muslimska kvinnor > rättslig ställning
- Islam > lagar
- Islamisk rätt > genusaspekter
- Religionsausübung
- Muslimin
- Mosques (Islamic law)
- Islam > laws
- Women in Islam
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Islamic Studies
- Women (Islamic law)
- Recht
- Views of women
- Muslim women > legal status
- Moschee
- Muslimska kvinnor > juridik och lagstiftning > historia
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-403) and index.
- Contents
- Women's mosque attendance as a legal problem -- Reconstructing practice -- Debating women's mosque access in sixteenth-century Mecca -- Modern developments.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-5315
- ISBN
- 9780231162661
- 0231162669
- 9780231537872
- 0231537875
- LCCN
- 2013039315
- OCLC
- 859168745
- Author
- Katz, Marion Holmes, 1967- author.
- Title
- Women in the mosque : a history of legal thought and social practice / Marion Holmes Katz.
- Publisher
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-403) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-5315