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Shifting Allegiances : the Women's Program in a Syrian Mosque.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Eugene :
Wipf and Stock Publishers,
2016.
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| Colección: | Australian College of Theology monograph series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 gr. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (1 page) |
| ISBN: | 9781498237185 1498237185 |