Muslim Women's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond: Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility

ISBN-13: 9780367615048 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 214 str.

Marjo Buitelaar; Manja Stephan-Emmrich; Viola Thimm

Opis

This book investigates female Muslims pilgrimage practices and how these relate to women’s mobility, social relations, identities, and the power structures that shape women’s lives.

Spis treści

Introduction: Muslim pilgrimage through the lens of women’s new mobilities-Marjo Buitelaar, Manja Stephan-Emmrich, and Viola Thimm; 1 Under male supervision? Nationality, age and Islamic belief as basis for Muslim women’s pilgrimage-Viola Thimm; 2 Young Moroccan-Dutch women on hajj: Claiming female space-Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany & Marjo Buitelaar; 3 Power in Moroccan women’s narratives of the hajj-Kholoud Al-Ajarma; 4 Shi’i Muslim women’s pilgrimage rituals to Lady Fatemeh-Masoumeh’s shrine in Qom-Ladan Rahbari; 5 Israeli Dead Sea cosmetics and charity for Palestinian children: Indonesian women’s shopping activities while on pilgrimage to Jerusalem-Mirjam Lücking; 6 ‘Clothing cannot improve moral behaviour’: Pilgrimage, fashion, and entrepreneurship in a West African market-Erin Kenny; 7 Considering the silences: Understanding historical narratives of women’s Indian Ocean hajj mobility-Jacqueline H. Fewkes; 8 Bosnian women on hajj-Dženita Karić; 9 In the ‘Land of Wonders’: Bint Al-Shāṭi’’s pilgrimage: The hajj and the construction of reformist religiosity-Richard van Leeuwen; 10 Stepping in the footsteps of Hajar to bring home the hajj: Dialogical positioning in Asra Nomani’s memoir Standing Alone-Marjo Buitelaar