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Curzon
Language
English
Pages
361

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Cover of: History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam
History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam
2015, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam
History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam
History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam
History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam
History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam
History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam
2013, Routledge
in English
Cover of: The history of women's mosques in Chinese Islam
The history of women's mosques in Chinese Islam: a mosque of their own
2000, Curzon
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: PART I: Introduction
I A Mosque Of Their Own: Muslim Women, Chinese Islam
and Sexual Equality
PART II: From the Margins of Memory
II Scholarly Debates: Islamic Faith, Innovation (bid'a) and
Constructs of Femininity
III The Beginnings and History of a Female Religious Culture
IV Growth and Expansion of Women's Mosques and Schools
PART III: Women's Mosques, Nu Ahong and their Religious
Culture
V 'Look Not at the Evil and Hear It Not' - From Ancient Persian
Canons to Contemporary Female Sexuality
VI 'The Road to Allah's Commandments' - Conflicts of Loyalty
under Chinese State Law
VII From Dependence to Independence: Women's Mosques, Islamic
Patriarchy and the State
PART IV: Claiming Heaven
VIII Between Allah and Modernity: Re/Engendering the Past
IX Xiuti; 'From Head to Toe' - Shaming and Concealing the Body
X The Feminisation of Purgatory: Mediating Spiritual Faith and
Equality
PART V: Chinese Muslim Women: Communitas, Choices, and
Conversion
XI Aisha, A Chronicle of Conversion and Collective Survival
XII Lives and Testimonies: Living in God's Shadow
Yang Huizhen Ahong, Social Activist in Zhejiang
Ba Ahong, Henan, Preserving Female Religious Tradition
Yang Yinlian Ahong, Harbin, Heilongjiang: My Work
Report
Daughters-in-Law in an Ahong's Family, Recalled
by Shui Zhiying
Epilogue
Appendix I Profiles of Two Leading Women's Mosques and their
Religious Leadership
Appendix II Nusi in the Republican Era (1912-1949)
Appendix III Questioning Hui and Han Women and Men on
Quality of Life (Survey)
Appendix IV Unpublished Documentation on Central China's
Muslim Culture and Women's Lives (lodged with
Henan Provincial Library, Zhengzhou, Henan Province)
Glossary.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-354) and index.

Published in
Richmond, Surrey
Other Titles
Mosque of their own

Classifications

Library of Congress
BP188.18.W65 J37 2000, BP188.18.W65J37 2000, BP188.18.W65 J37 2000eb

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Pagination
xix, 361 p. :
Number of pages
361

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Open Library
OL4008994M
ISBN 10
0700713026
LCCN
2001369000
OCLC/WorldCat
45325188, 861199725
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1830197

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