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- Title
Women Claiming Mosques.
- Abstract
The article reports on the decision of the Darul Uloom Deoband Islamic seminary in India to reject a proposal by the All-India Muslim Women's Personal Law Board to set up separate mosques for Muslim women. According to Mufti Ehsan Qasmi, deputy in-charge of the edict department of the seminary, Islam did not allow Muslim women to act as imams in mosques. Board president Shaista Amber argues that the Koran was not against women offering namaz or obligatory prayers in mosques as Hazrat Bibi Hafsa, one of prophet Mohammed's wives, used to do such.
- Subjects
INDIA; MOSQUES; MUSLIM women; ISLAM; IMAMS (Mosque officers); QASMI, Mufti Ehsan; AMBER, Shaista
- Publication
Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan, 2008, Vol 15, Issue 1, p102
- ISSN
1024-1256
- Publication type
Article