Transforming faith: the story of Al-Huda and Islamic revivalism among urban Pakistani women

US-trained Pakistani anthropologist [CIP Ahmad] (Lahore Univ., Pakistan) went back to Islamabad in 2004 to research Al-Huda, an Islamic revivalist movement. Established in the 1990s by charismatic female Islamic scholar Farhat Hashemi, Al-Huda began as a school that offered upperand middle-class wom...

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Published in:Choice (Middletown) 2010, Vol.48 (1), p.193
Main Author: Rassam, A
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Ahmad, Sadaf
Faith
Islam
Muslims
Nonfiction
Women
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Summary:US-trained Pakistani anthropologist [CIP Ahmad] (Lahore Univ., Pakistan) went back to Islamabad in 2004 to research Al-Huda, an Islamic revivalist movement. Established in the 1990s by charismatic female Islamic scholar Farhat Hashemi, Al-Huda began as a school that offered upperand middle-class women courses in religious education centered on an interpretive approach to the Quran and other Muslim texts as they relate to women.
ISSN:0009-4978
1943-5975