Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice

by Marion Holmes Katz

Book Overview

Juxtaposing Muslim scholars' debates over women's attendance in mosques with historical descriptions of women's activities within Middle Eastern and North African mosques, Marion Holmes Katz shows how over the centuries legal scholars' arguments have often reacted to rather than dictated Muslim women's behavior.

Tracing Sunni legal positions on women in mosques from the second century of the Islamic calendar to the modern period, Katz connects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231162677
• ISBN13: 9780231162678
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"