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Women in the mosque: a history of legal thought and social practice

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Juxtaposing Muslim scholars' debates over women's attendance in mosques with historical descriptions of women's activities within Middle Eastern and North African mosques, this study shows how over the centuries legal scholars' arguments have often reacted to rather than dictated Muslim women's behaviour.

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Product Details
Columbia University Press
0231537875 / 9780231537872
eBook (Adobe Pdf, EPUB)
23/09/2014
English
405 pages
152 x 229 mm
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