They Made Their Sacred Space: Power and Piety in Women’s Mosques and Mushollas

abstract: This dissertation examines the concept of gendered space as it applies to prayer spaces in Islam, particularly mosques and mushollas exclusively for women. Gendered space is often articulated as space created by those with power—men— in order to control women’s access to knowledge and to p...

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Other Authors: Elias Jenner, Bethany Mintha (Author)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.57126