Women as Imams

Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction

PART ONE: THE PAST
Chapter 1: Prayer leadership, imams and women: defining the contexts and setting the issues
Prayer and women: purity and leadership
The imam as prayer leader

Chapter 2: Women leading women
Setting the narrative context (Umm Salama)
The Hadiths on female prayer leadership in Sunni jurisprudence
Shi'i positions on female imama of women: identity, shared issues and esoteric interpretations.

Chapter 3: Women leading men
Women as leaders of men (Umm Waraqa and Ghazala)
Legal arguments on women leading men
Ibn al-'Arabi and female imama

PART TWO: THE PRESENT

Chapter 4: Present debates and Practices
Some current cases of women imams of women and of men
Contemporary arguments and debates on female imams of men
Uses of the past in contemporary debates

Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.

• Islão
• Religião comparativa
• Estudos de gênero: as mulheres
• Direito islâmico