In this ethnographic examination of womenOs mosques in the Maldives, anthropologist Jacqueline H. Fewkes probes how the existence of these separate buildingswhere women lead prayers for other womenintersect with larger questions about gender, space, and global Muslim communities. Bringing together ethnographic insight with historical accounts, this volume develops an understanding of the particular religious and cultural trends in the Maldives that have given rise to these unique socio-religious institutions. As Fewkes considers womenOs spaces in the Maldives as a practice apart from contemporary global Islamic customs, she interrogates the intersections between local, national, and transnational communities in the development of Islamic spaces, linking together the role of nations in the formation of Muslim social spaces with transnational conceptualizations of Islamic gendered spaces. Using the Maldivian womenOs mosque as a starting point, this book addresses the roles ofboth the nation and the global Muslim ummah in locating gendered spaces within discourses about gender and Islam.
Preface.Chapter 1: Introduction.Chapter 2: Visiting the Nisha Miskii.Chapter 3: Dimensions.Chapter 4: Narratives of Place.Chapter 5: Locating Women's Mosques.Chapter 6: Locating Women's Roles.Chapter 7: Contexts and Discourses.Chapter 8: Closures and Conclusions.
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