Women as imams : classical Islamic sources and modern debates on leading prayer / Simonetta Calderini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calderini, Simonetta, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women imams (Mosque officers).

Imams (Shiites).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 231 pages)

polychrome

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Prayer leadership, imams and women: defining the contexts and setting the issues. Prayer and women: purity and leadership. The imam as prayer leader

Congregational prayers: women leading women. Setting the narrative context: Umm Salama. Hadiths on female prayer leadership and Sunni jurisprudence. Shi'i positions on female imama of women: Identity, shared issues and esoteric interpretations

Congregational prayers: women leading men. Setting the context. Women as prayer leaders of men: Umm Waraqa and Ghazala. Legal arguments on women leading men in prayer. Ibn al-'Arabi and female imama

Present debates and practices. Some current cases of women imams of women. Some current cases of women imams of mixed congregations. Contemporary arguments and debates on female imams of men. Uses of the past in contemporary debates

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version: Calderini, Simonetta Women As Imams : Classical Islamic Sources and Modern Debates on Leading Prayer

ISBN:

9780755618033

0755618033

9780755618026

0755618025

Publisher Number:

40030309567

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.