The Women’s Mosque of America (eBook)

Authority and Community in US Islam

Tazeen M. Ali (Autor)

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2022
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-1128-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023Analyzes how American Muslim women assert themselves as religious actors in the US and beyond, using the Qur an as a tool for social justice and community buildingThe Women s Mosque of America (WMA), a multiracial, women-only mosque in Los Angeles, is the first of its kind in the United States. Since 2015, the WMA has provided a space for Muslim women to build inclusive communities committed to gender and social justice, challenging the dominant mosque culture that has historically marginalized them through inadequate prayer spaces, exclusion from leadership, and limited access to religious learning. Tazeen M. Ali explores this congregation, focusing on how members contest established patriarchal norms while simultaneously contending with domestic and global Islamophobia that renders their communities vulnerable to violence. Drawing on textual analysis of WMA sermons and ethnographic interviews with community members, and utilizing Black feminist and womanist frameworks, Ali investigates how American Muslim women create and authorize new conceptions of Islamic authority. Whereas the established model of Islamic authority is rooted in formal religious training and Arabic language expertise, the WMA is predicated on women s embodied experiences, commitments to social and racial justice, English interpretations of the Qur an, and community building across Islamic sects and in an interfaith context. Situating the US at the center rather than at the margins of debates over Islamic authority and showing how American Muslim women assert themselves as meaningful religious actors in the US and beyond, Ali s work offers new insights on Islamic authority as it relates to the intersections of gender, religious space, and national belonging.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 4 b/w illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Ahmadi • allyship • American Islam • American mosques • american muslim women • American religions • Amina Wadud • anti-blackness • Anti-muslim Racism • Arabic language hegemony • Black lives matter • Embodied authority • English translations of the Qur’an • Exegesis • Female imams • Gendered Islamic authority • gendered Islamophobia • Global Islamophobia • Interfaith solidarity • intrafaith • Intra Muslim racism • Islam • Islam and Gender • Islamic authority • Islamic tradition • Islam in America • Islam in the United States • Islamophobia • Jummah • Latinx Muslims • Lay Muslim authority • Legal debates on ritual authority • Mosque • Muslim Community • Muslim women • Patriarchal mosque culture • pluralism • Prayer leadership • Qur’an • Qur’anic literacy • Religious Authority • Religious pluralism • Social Justice • Sunni-Shia • Surveillance • US islam • vulnerability • wives of muhammad • Woman led prayer • Women's experiences as exegesis • Women's interpretive communities • Women's khutbahs (sermons) • Women's khutbahs/sermons • Women’s Mosque of America • Women's religious authority
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-1128-9 / 1479811289
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-1128-1 / 9781479811281