ISBN:
0-7007-1302-6
Language:
English
Pages:
XIX, 361 S. :
,
Ill., Kt. ;
,
24 cm.
Edition:
1. publ.
DDC:
297.3551
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Muslim women / China / History
;
Mosques / China / History
;
Freedom of religion / China
;
Moskeeën
;
Mosquées - Chine - Histoire
;
Musulmanes - Chine - Histoire
;
Vrouwen
;
Frau
;
Geschichte
;
Mosques History
;
Muslim women History
;
Moschee.
;
Muslimin.
;
Islam.
;
Frau.
;
Kultur.
;
China.
;
Moschee
;
Muslimin
;
Geschichte
;
Islam
;
Frau
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-354) and index. - 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Era (1912-1949) -- Appendix III Questioning Hui and Han Women and Men on -- Quality of Life (Survey) -- Appendix IV Unpublished Documentation on Central China's -- Muslim Culture and Women's Lives (lodged with -- Henan Provincial Library, Zhengzhou, Henan Province) -- Glossary
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