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TitleShifting allegiances : The Women's program in a Syrian mosque / Moyra Dale; foreward by Peter G. Riddell [electronic resource]
AuthorDale, Moyra.
Call NoDTL 297.082 DAL
CollectionEbook
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International Standard Book Number 9781498237185
Dewey Decimal Classification Number DTL 297.082 DAL
Personal Name Dale, Moyra.
Title Statement Shifting allegiances : The Women's program in a Syrian mosque / Moyra Dale; foreward by Peter G. Riddell [electronic resource]
Imprint Eugene, Oregon : Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2016.
Physical Description eBook
Series Statement - Title Australian College of Theology Monograph Series
General Note Includes Index and Bibliographical References
Formatted Contents Note Women and text in Islam -- Research in context -- Setting the scene : women's mosque program -- Alternate community -- Ideal leader -- Performative practices -- Texts, practices, and meanings -- Dhikr.
Summary, Etc. "What happens when Muslim women gather together at the mosque to read the Qur'an, learn, and pray? How does family loyalty interact with mosque attendance for women? This book explores the growing Muslim women's piety movement through looking at one women's program in a Syrian suburban mosque. Community models shape individual behavior. The place and power of blessing help define the boundaries between orthodox and popular Islam. Modesty and shame, feasts and fasting, purity and prayer, interact to shape daily life possibilities for women involved in the mosque program. At the same time, the growing accessibility of religious teaching for women allows them to take up new places of authority in the Muslim ummah. Women read the Qur'an not just for blessing, but for what it has to say to issues of daily female and family life. And the words of communal dhikr devotion offer a window into the worshippers' consciousness of God and of Muhammad, Prophet of Islam. This detailed examination of a women's mosque program places it within the wider contemporary movement of piety and da'wa (mission) in Islam, offering an insight into the forces that are shaping communities and countries today."--
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term SYRIA.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term MUSLIM WOMEN - RELIGIOUS LIFE.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term FAMILIES - RELIGOUS ASPECTS - ISLAM.
Electronic Location and Access http://thedtl.on.worldcat.org/oclc/964403832 DTL ePlatform Full text - Book opens through link in DTL DTL