Shifting Allegiances, Networks of Kinship and of Faith: The Women's Program in a Syrian Mosque

Moyra Dale, Peter G. Riddell (Foreword)

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9781498237185

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 behaviour. 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.