Edited by Masooda Bano and Hilary Kalmbach, Women, Leadership, and
Mosques: Changes in Contemporary Islamic Authority is a compilation of
papers presented at a 2009 conference of the same name. The book’s twenty
chapters represent a diverse range of geographic, thematic, and methodological
approaches to questions of female leadership within mosques, religious
scholarship, education, Muslim organizations, and other Islamic spaces. Together,
they paint a rich and complex picture of the intersections of gender,
religion, culture, history, politics, class, and migration, as well as the impact
of these intersections on female authority in Islamic contexts.
Source: American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences