Tag: women
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Malabar Women and Domestic Religion
This work examines the significance of religion among Malabar Muslims, particularly focusing on older women as key figures in transmitting religious values. It highlights the role of domestic practices and online platforms that emerged during the pandemic, emphasizing how these changes have both positive effects and challenges on spiritual engagement and community connections.
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In the Spirit of Fatima Al-Fihri
In recent years, Fatima al-Fihri, may Allah be pleased with her, has acquired a mythological, folklore-like status as the “founder of the world’s oldest university.” The magazine Girlboss credits her with “establishing the university as we know it today.” Oxford Reference and UNESCO recognize University of al-Qarawiyyin as “the oldest operating university in the world.”…
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Motherhood is a Communal Imperative
Subject to the same atomizing forces as the rest of western society, Muslim women are having to choose between the frying pan and the fire.
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Ramadan Traditions in the Casbah of Algiers
While traveling is not feasible during the coronavirus pandemic, a strong imagination can take us anywhere we want.