What happens when Muslim women gather together at the mosque to read the Quran, learn, and pray? How does family loyalty interact with mosque attendance for women? This book explores the growing Muslim womens piety movement through looking at one womens program in a Syrian suburban mosque. Community models shape individual behavior. The place and power of blessing help define the boundaries between orthodox and popular Islam. Modesty and shame, feasts and fasting, purity and prayer, interact to shape daily life possibilities for women involved in the mosque program. At the same time, the...