Scholars of Faith
South Asian Muslim Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge
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ISBN:
9780190120801
Publication date:
09/09/2020
Hardback
409 pages
Price: 1495.00 INR
ISBN:
9780190120801
Publication date:
09/09/2020
Hardback
409 pages
Usha Sanyal
Rights: World Rights
Usha Sanyal
Description
Since the late twentieth century, new institutions of Islamic learning for South Asian women and girls have emerged rapidly, particularly in urban areas and in the diaspora. This book reflects upon the increased access of Muslim girls and women to religious education and the purposes to which they seek to put their learning.
Scholars of Faith is based on ethnographic fieldwork in two institutions of religious learning: the Jami'a Nur madrasa in Shahjahanpur, North India, and Al-Huda International, an NGO that offers online courses on Islam, especially the Qur'an. In this monograph, Sanyal argues that Islamic religious education in the early twenty-first century — particularly for women — is thoroughly 'modern' and that this modernity, reflected in both old and new interpretations of religious texts, allows young South Asian women to evaluate their place in traditional structures of patriarchal authority in the public and private spheres in novel ways.
Usha Sanyal is an independent scholar whose prior research has focused on the history of the Barelwi or Ahl-i Sunnat wa Jama'at movement in British India. Her book, Devotional Islam: Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and His Movement is in its 3rd edition (Yoda Press, 2013). She lives and teaches in North Carolina.
Usha Sanyal
Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Iman, Ahkam, Adab
1: Muslim Girls' Education in North India in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
2: Jami'a Nur al-Shari'at, a Barelwi Girls' Madrasa in U.P., India
3: Pedagogy and Daily Life at Jami'a Nur al-Shari'at
4: Attachment to School: The Madrasa and the Islamic Public School for Girls Compared
5: Life after the Madrasa
Part II: Iman, Ahkam, Da'wa
6: Al-Huda International: Muslim Women Empower Themselves through Online Study of the Qur'an
7: Al-Huda's Intellectual Foundations
8: Al-Huda Onsite and Online: Teacher-Learners and Students in North America
9: Student Narratives: Personal Transformations and Reorientations
Conclusion: Why Now?
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Usha Sanyal
Features
- Qualitative study of Muslim women in India and in the diaspora, with a focus on religious education and how it impacts everyday life
- It examines Muslim girls and women from different ideological schools of thought within South Asian Sunni Islam, the one traditionalist and the other modernist
- This comparative study contributes and adds value to an under-researched field by increasing our knowledge of everyday, lived Islam with a focus on Muslim women in the modern world
Usha Sanyal
Description
Since the late twentieth century, new institutions of Islamic learning for South Asian women and girls have emerged rapidly, particularly in urban areas and in the diaspora. This book reflects upon the increased access of Muslim girls and women to religious education and the purposes to which they seek to put their learning.
Scholars of Faith is based on ethnographic fieldwork in two institutions of religious learning: the Jami'a Nur madrasa in Shahjahanpur, North India, and Al-Huda International, an NGO that offers online courses on Islam, especially the Qur'an. In this monograph, Sanyal argues that Islamic religious education in the early twenty-first century — particularly for women — is thoroughly 'modern' and that this modernity, reflected in both old and new interpretations of religious texts, allows young South Asian women to evaluate their place in traditional structures of patriarchal authority in the public and private spheres in novel ways.
Usha Sanyal is an independent scholar whose prior research has focused on the history of the Barelwi or Ahl-i Sunnat wa Jama'at movement in British India. Her book, Devotional Islam: Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and His Movement is in its 3rd edition (Yoda Press, 2013). She lives and teaches in North Carolina.
Read MoreTable of contents
- Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Iman, Ahkam, Adab
1: Muslim Girls' Education in North India in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
2: Jami'a Nur al-Shari'at, a Barelwi Girls' Madrasa in U.P., India
3: Pedagogy and Daily Life at Jami'a Nur al-Shari'at
4: Attachment to School: The Madrasa and the Islamic Public School for Girls Compared
5: Life after the Madrasa
Part II: Iman, Ahkam, Da'wa
6: Al-Huda International: Muslim Women Empower Themselves through Online Study of the Qur'an
7: Al-Huda's Intellectual Foundations
8: Al-Huda Onsite and Online: Teacher-Learners and Students in North America
9: Student Narratives: Personal Transformations and Reorientations
Conclusion: Why Now?
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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