Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice

Marion Holmes Katz

Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice - viii, 417 p.; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-403) and index.

Women's mosque attendance as a legal issue -- Reconstructing practice -- Debating women's mosque access in sixteenth-century Mecca -- Modern developments.

9780231162661


Women (Islamic law)--Mosque attendance
Mosques (Islamic law)--Women's mosque attendance
Women in Islam