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Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice
Marion Katz
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Description for Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice
Hardback. Num Pages: 432 pages, 2. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; HRH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 168 x 33. Weight in Grams: 730.
Juxtaposing Muslim scholars' debates over women's attendance in mosques with historical descriptions of women's activities within Middle Eastern and North African mosques, Marion Holmes Katz shows how over the centuries legal scholars' arguments have often reacted to rather than dictated Muslim women's behavior. Tracing Sunni legal positions on women in mosques from the second century of the Islamic calendar to the modern period, Katz connects shifts in scholarly terminology and argumentation to changing constructions of gender. Over time, assumptions about women's changing behavior through the lifecycle gave way to a global preoccupation with sexual temptation, which then became the central ... Read more
Juxtaposing Muslim scholars' debates over women's attendance in mosques with historical descriptions of women's activities within Middle Eastern and North African mosques, Marion Holmes Katz shows how over the centuries legal scholars' arguments have often reacted to rather than dictated Muslim women's behavior. Tracing Sunni legal positions on women in mosques from the second century of the Islamic calendar to the modern period, Katz connects shifts in scholarly terminology and argumentation to changing constructions of gender. Over time, assumptions about women's changing behavior through the lifecycle gave way to a global preoccupation with sexual temptation, which then became the central ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
779g
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231162661
SKU
V9780231162661
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About Marion Katz
Marion Holmes Katz has taught at Franklin and Marshall and Mount Holyoke College and is currently a professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University. She has published extensively on topics relating to Islamic law, gender, and ritual.
Reviews for Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice
A scholarly milestone. Women in the Mosque is a comprehensive, categorical treatment of the question of women's mosque access in Islamic law and history. Marion Holmes Katz is one of the most widely respected scholars of Islamic law and ritual in the West, and, in its scope and detail, this work is peerless to my knowledge.
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