Research Catalog

Title

Women as imams : classical Islamic sources and modern debates on leading prayer / Simonetta Calderini.

Author

Calderini, Simonetta

Publication

London : I.B. Tauris, 2021.

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Details

Description

xi, 231 pages; 25 cm

Subject

• Women imams (Mosque officers)
• Imams (Shiites)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-219) and index.

Contents

Prayer leadership, imams and women: defining the contexts and setting the issues. Prayer and women: purity and leadership. The imam as prayer leader -- Congregational prayers: women leading women. Setting the narrative context: Umm Salama. Hadiths on female prayer leadership and Sunni jurisprudence. Shi'i positions on female imama of women: Identity, shared issues and esoteric interpretations -- Congregational prayers: women leading men. Setting the context. Women as prayer leaders of men: Umm Waraqa and Ghazala. Legal arguments on women leading men in prayer. Ibn al-'Arabi and female imama -- Present debates and practices. Some current cases of women imams of women. Some current cases of women imams of mixed congregations. Contemporary arguments and debates on female imams of men. Uses of the past in contemporary debates

Call Number

JFE 21-5999

ISBN

• 9781838606183
• 1838606181

OCLC

1133278053

Author

Calderini, Simonetta, author.

Title

Women as imams : classical Islamic sources and modern debates on leading prayer / Simonetta Calderini.

Publisher

London : I.B. Tauris, 2021.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-219) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-5999