Women leadership in the Mosque
Starting from the Friday woman lead prayer held in 2005 in New York, I focus in this paper on the role Muslim contemporary women play in shaping Muslim societies and communities to assert their authoritative role “in the mosque”. I begin by setting the scene of the event and, after a brief discussio...
| Published in: | Horizonte |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2015]
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Horizonte
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| Further subjects: | B
gender ğihād
B women leadership B women imāma B leadership in the mosque B Qur’ānic hermeneutics |
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| Summary: | Starting from the Friday woman lead prayer held in 2005 in New York, I focus in this paper on the role Muslim contemporary women play in shaping Muslim societies and communities to assert their authoritative role “in the mosque”. I begin by setting the scene of the event and, after a brief discussion of its symbolic meaning, I address two main questions: first, how the debate which followed the event contributed and contributes to promote a change inside the Muslim world and outside it, letting emerge some leading figures in the struggle for justice and equity in contemporary Islam; and second which are the theological and legal basis for the role of woman as imāma (prayer leader). Although the issue of women leadership in prayer is far from finding a unanimous consent, the debate demonstrates that some issues can and must be discussed, and that a change is possible only when Muslim women question the male elite power. |
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| ISSN: | 2175-5841 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Horizonte
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