Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Women and Islam
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Women and Islam
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- A Note on Foreign-Language Words
- Introduction
- Part I Logic of Classical Reasoning
- Part II Asserting Agency in Faith
- 6 Becoming Salafi
- 7 Joining Political Islam
- 8 Conversions to Islam
- 9 Islamic Feminists’ Approaches
- 10 Women’s Mosques in China
- Part III Asserting Agency in Socio-Political Life
- Volume Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To … (continued from page ii)
- References
9 - Islamic Feminists’ Approaches
from Part II - Asserting Agency in Faith
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2025
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Women and Islam
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Women and Islam
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- A Note on Foreign-Language Words
- Introduction
- Part I Logic of Classical Reasoning
- Part II Asserting Agency in Faith
- 6 Becoming Salafi
- 7 Joining Political Islam
- 8 Conversions to Islam
- 9 Islamic Feminists’ Approaches
- 10 Women’s Mosques in China
- Part III Asserting Agency in Socio-Political Life
- Volume Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To … (continued from page ii)
- References
Summary
Nina Nurmila provides a review of key scholarly figures in the field of Islamic feminism and their methodological approaches. She emphasizes how, in Indonesia, their influence has permeated the wider Muslim community more effectively than in other contexts, thanks to local scholars disseminating their ideas through vernacular Islamic scholarship.
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