TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dale,Moyra
TI  - Shifting allegiances: networks of kinship and of faith : the women's program in a Syrian mosque 
T2  - Australian College of Theology monograph series
SN  - 9781498237192
AV  - BP188.18.W65 D35 2016eb
U1  - 297.082 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Eugene, Oregon
PB  - Wipf & Stock
KW  - Muslim women
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Syria
KW  - Families
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Islam
KW  - Musulmanes
KW  - Vie religieuse
KW  - Syrie
KW  - Familles
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-245); 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
N2  - "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."--
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