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There is a long and rich history of opinion centred on female prayer leadership in Islam that has occupied the minds of theologians and jurists alike. It includes outright prohibition, dislike, permissibility under certain conditions and, although rarely, unrestricted sanction, or even endorsement.
This book discusses debates drawn from scholars of the formative period of Islam who engaged with the issue of female prayer leadership. Simonetta Calderini critically analyses their arguments, puts them into their historical context, and, for the first time, tracks down how they have informed current views on female imama (prayer leadership). In presenting the variety of opinions discussed in the past by Sunni and Shi'i scholars, and some of the Sufis among them, the book uncovers how they are, at present, being used selectively, depending on modern agendas and biases. It also reviews the roles and types of authority of current women imams in diverse contexts spanning from Asia, Africa and Europe to America. The research offers readers the opportunity to gain nuanced
answers to the question of female imama today that may lead to informed discussions and to change, if not necessarily in practices then at the very least in attitudes.
This ground-breaking book interrogates the cases of women who are reported to have led prayer in the past. It then analyses the voices of current women imams, many of whom engage with those women of the past to validate their own roles in the present and so pave the way for the future.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction
PART ONE: THE PAST
Chapter 1: Prayer leadership, imams and women: defining the contexts and setting the issues
Prayer and women: purity and leadership
The imam as prayer leader
Chapter 2: Women leading women
Setting the narrative context (Umm Salama)
The Hadiths on female prayer leadership in Sunni jurisprudence
Shi'i positions on female imama of women: identity, shared issues and esoteric interpretations.
Chapter 3: Women leading men
Women as leaders of men (Umm Waraqa and Ghazala)
Legal arguments on women leading men
Ibn al-'Arabi and female imama
PART TWO: THE PRESENT
Chapter 4: Present debates and Practices
Some current cases of women imams of women and of men
Contemporary arguments and debates on female imams of men
Uses of the past in contemporary debates
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
