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 pr...
A propos de l’auteur
Peter Riddell serves as a senior research fellow of the Australian College of Theology at MST and is a professorial research fellow in history at SOAS Universit...
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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 272 ● ISBN 9781498237192 ● Taille du fichier 1.8 MB ● Maison d’édition Wipf and Stock Publishers ● Lieu Eugene ● Pays US ● Publié 2016 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 6884206 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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