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Mapping Muslim Moral Provinces: Framing Feminized Piety of Pakistani Diaspora by Mehmood, Maryyum (author) is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Mapping Muslim Moral Provinces: Framing Feminized Piety of Pakistani Diaspora about?
Over the last two decades we have seen a proliferation in the number of self-proclaimed Islamic scholars preaching piety to Muslim women. An emerging few of these scholars gaining prominence happen to be women, feminizing what is predominantly a patriarchal domain of dawah (missionary work) and proselytization. Traditionally speaking, Muslim missionaries have never been restricted to a particular moral province, perhaps due to the fact that Islam was never intended as a hierarchical religion with a mosque–state divide. This makes mapping Muslim moral spaces in a hyper-globalized world—one in which shared identities and ideologies transcend territorial boundaries—all the more challenging. Using the firebrand female Muslim tele preacher, Dr. Farhat Hashmi, and her global proselytizing mission (Al-Huda International) as a springboard for discussion, this paper seeks to map out the ways in which modern Muslim women in the post-9/11 British Pakistani diaspora navigate these moral provinces. By juxtaposing the staunchly orthodox impositions of niqab-clad Dr. Hashmi, with the revolt from within Muslim spaces, from practicing, ‘middle-path’ Muslims, this paper critically engages with Saba
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- Author
- Mehmood, Maryyum (author)
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences