Artikel
Gender, Religious Agency, and the Subject of Al-Huda International
Verfasst von:
Shaikh, Khanum
in:
Meridians
2013
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Heft:
2
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62 - 86 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Shaikh, Khanum |
| In: | Meridians |
| Jahr: | 2013 |
| Heft: | 2 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| The focus of this paper is Al-Huda International, a Pakistan-based Sunni Muslim women’s organization working to bring about social reform through women’s religious education. Created and led by urban, upper-class Pakistani women, Al-Huda approaches religious interpretation and praxis in a way that challenges that of the male ulema (religious scholars) who have historically exercised a monopoly over the production and dissemination of religious knowledge in Pakistan. Al-Huda advances a model of piety that casts women as moral-religious actors anchored in, but not confined to, their domestic roles and invested in building religiously educated families and communities. Employing a transnational feminist framework, the author examines how the subject of Al-Huda and her presumed relation to the domestic is configured and reconfigured in narratives of the Pakistani ulema and narratives of prominent progressive Muslim activists in Canada. | |
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