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Book SynopsisIn the last decade a number of women-led mosques have emerged in Europe and North America. In The Making of a Mosque with Female Imams Jesper Petersen documents the serendipitous, yet predictable, emergence of the Mariam Mosque in Copenhagen. The study first demonstrates that individuals’ facing the unpredictable plays a decisive role in social processes. This leads to an investigation of how serendipities are erased when narratives are erected retrospectively in the form of commodified products, autobiographical narratives, and research. Furthermore, Petersen conceptualizes non-Muslims’ theological productions of Islam – Islam without the worship of Allah, so to speak – and demonstrates how this influences Muslim productions of Islam.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of figures Chapter 1: Entering the field Chapter 2: Ethnographic methodology Chapter 3: Muslims in Denmark Chapter 4 Sherin Khankan Chapter 5: The emergence of a religious demand Chapter 6: The serendipitous spread of a story Chapter 7: Planning the founding of Femimam Chapter 8: The serendipitous emergence of an institution Chapter 9: The pop-up mosque and its social media adhan Chapter 10: The first Mariam Mosque Chapter 11: Politicized and commodified narratives of Sherin Khankan Conclusion Bibliography Index
