Women as Imams - Classical Islamic Sources and Modern Debates on Leading Prayer

In recent years, media reports of women Imams throughout the world, in places such as Tamil Nadu and Uzbekistan, and the training of women preachers in Syria, Morocco and Malaysia have become increasingly frequent and, as a result, have caused widespread debate amongst scholars and clerics. Looking back at medieval laws which provide historic-textual precedents on the question of female ritual leadership, and looking ahead to present initiatives such as "The Islamic Bill of Rights for Women in Mosques", this book examines the permissibility of the practice of women Imams. Calderini provides an original and much needed view on a significant modern phenomenon and in doing so addresses wider questions on the role of women in Islam as a whole. Calderini analyses modern events alongside historical hadiths and laws to shed light on a highly topical debate whose outcome will inevitably shape the lives of future generations of Muslim women.

Product details

• Authors: Simonetta Calderini, Calderini Simonetta
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781838606183
• ISBN: 978-1-83860-618-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Gender and Islam
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Islam, RELIGION / History, comparative religion, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, RELIGION / Islam / Law, Islamic Law, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Systems of law: Islamic law