Description
Book SynopsisExamining the intellectual output of female American Muslim writers and scholars since 1990, Hammer demonstrates that the themes at the heart of women’s writings are central to the debates of modern Islam worldwide.
Trade ReviewAmerican Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism overall is a significant and distinctive contribution to the existing discourse...the survey of manifold topics is precisely what creates the primary strength of the book; it makes the book an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the complexity of the discourse surrounding and produced by American Muslim women. * Journal of American Academy of Religion *
Table of Contents
- Note on Transliteration
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- A Woman-Led Friday Prayer: March 18, 2005
- Women Leading Prayers: Tracing the Debate
- Gender Justice and Qur'anic Exegesis
- History, Women's Rights, and Islamic Law
- Authority, Tradition, Community
- Space, Leadership, Voice
- Media, Representation(s), Politics
- Memoirs, Narratives, and Marketing
- Covers and Other Matters: Concluding Thoughts
