Mosques and Meeting Rooms: Professional Lives of Muslim Women

This IQAS special issue relates to the relationship between religious knowledge and women’s professionalisation. It links empirical observations of applied religious knowledge with the conceptualisation of professionalisation, examined through case studies from Southeast, South and Central Asia. The...

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Published in:International quarterly for Asian studies 2023, Vol.54 (4), p.343-354
Main Authors: Derichs, Claudia, Muhammad-Din, Faiza, Stephan-Emmrich, Manja
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activism
Apprenticeship
Asia
concepts of profession
Culture
Education
Gender
Institutionalization
Islam
Islamic financing
Knowledge
knowledge production
Licenses
Licensing
Mosques
Muslim women
Muslims
professionalisation
Professionals
Religion
religious knowledge
Spirituality
Womens rights movements
Working women
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Summary:This IQAS special issue relates to the relationship between religious knowledge and women’s professionalisation. It links empirical observations of applied religious knowledge with the conceptualisation of professionalisation, examined through case studies from Southeast, South and Central Asia. The lens it looks through is intentionally gender-sensitive, exploring how Muslim women in Asia actively and creatively participate in the production and dissemination of religious knowledge and the formation of new knowledge societies through participation in social activism and the global economy on multiple scales. The authors are members and partners of a research initiative that seeks to explore women’s pathways to professionalisation in Muslim Asia. In the course of three years, substantial findings have come to light that lead the authors of this issue to suggest a more flexible understanding of the concept of “profession” and the notion of “religious knowledge”.
ISSN:0020-9449
2566-686X
2365-0117
2566-6878
DOI:10.11588/iqas.2023.4.24071