What occurs while Muslim ladies assemble jointly on the mosque to learn the Qur'an, study, and pray? How does kin loyalty engage with mosque attendance for ladies? This booklet explores the starting to be Muslim women's piety flow via taking a look at one women's application in a Syrian suburban mosque. group versions form person habit. where and gear of blessing support outline the bounds among orthodox and well known Islam. Modesty and disgrace, feasts and fasting, purity and prayer, engage to form lifestyle percentages for ladies enthusiastic about the mosque application. whilst, the becoming accessibility of non secular educating for girls permits them to absorb new areas of authority within the Muslim ummah. ladies learn the Qur'an not only for blessing, yet for what it has to claim to problems with day-by-day girl and relations lifestyles. And the phrases of communal dhikr devotion provide a window into the worshippers' awareness of God and of Muhammad, Prophet of Islam.

This particular exam of a women's mosque software locations it in the wider modern circulation of piety and da'wa (mission) in Islam, providing an perception into the forces which are shaping groups and international locations today.

"It is sort of unbearably poignant to learn Moyra Dale's description of a colourful Muslim women's crew in Damascus at a time while Syria's tensions pervade the media, and the people she describes have scattered. The brilliant and loving description of the ladies is a crucial list of imperiled humanity, and the research when it comes to altering allegiances deals a device for figuring out the various communal and relatives dynamics of latest world." 
--Ida Glaser, Director of The Centre for Muslim-Christian reviews, Oxford; Co-author of Thinking Biblically approximately Islam: Genesis, Transfiguration, Transformation

"This exact case examine describes a brand new memetic perfect as girls in a mosque sorority shifted their allegiance from kinship to the mosque as a huge locus of id. that modify happened as they embodied practices and built their voices as ladies 'seeking reference to the prophet Muhammad.' Of curiosity to Islamic students and women's reviews researchers on communal identification and performative practices, this e-book makes a well timed contribution to an international that wishes extra nuanced perspectives of Islam."
--Frances S. Adeney, William A. Benfield Professor Emerita of Evangelism and international challenge, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary

Moyra Dale has lived and labored for a few years within the center East, quite Egypt and Syria. She has been taken with instructing and instructor education in Arabic grownup Literacy, and educating English as a overseas Language. She now teaches in Cultural Anthropology and Islam.