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Informationen zum Autor Juliane Hammer is Assistant Professor and Kenan Rifai Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Palestinians Born in Exile: Diaspora and the Search for a Homeland. Klappentext Examining the intellectual output of female American Muslim writers and scholars since 1990, Hammer demonstrates that the themes at the heart of women's writings are central to the debates of modern Islam worldwide. American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism overall is a significant and distinctive contribution to the existing discourse...the survey of manifold topics is precisely what creates the primary strength of the book; it makes the book an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the complexity of the discourse surrounding and produced by American Muslim women.--Jerusha Tanner Lamptey, Union Theological Seminary"Journal of American Academy of Religion" (04/01/2013) Zusammenfassung Examining the intellectual output of female American Muslim writers and scholars since 1990, Hammer demonstrates that the themes at the heart of women’s writings are central to the debates of modern Islam worldwide. Inhaltsverzeichnis Note on TransliterationAcknowledgmentsIntroductionA Woman-Led Friday Prayer: March 18, 2005Women Leading Prayers: Tracing the DebateGender Justice and Qur'anic ExegesisHistory, Women's Rights, and Islamic LawAuthority, Tradition, CommunitySpace, Leadership, VoiceMedia, Representation(s), PoliticsMemoirs, Narratives, and MarketingCovers and Other Matters: Concluding ThoughtsNotesBibliographyIndex
