By Maria Jaschok,Shui Jingjun Shui

ISBN-10: 0700713026

ISBN-13: 9780700713028

ISBN-10: 1138863246

ISBN-13: 9781138863248

This is a examine of chinese language Hui Muslim women's ancient and unrelenting religious, academic, political and gendered force for an institutional presence in Islamic worship and management: 'a mosque of one's personal' as a distinct characteristic of chinese language Muslim tradition. The authors position the ancient beginning of women's segregated spiritual associations within the chinese language Islamic diaspora's struggle for survival, and of their the most important contribution to the reason for ethnic/religious minority id and unity. opposed to the presentation of advanced old advancements of women's personal website of worship and studying, the authors open out to modern difficulties of sexual politics in the wider society of socialist China and past to the background of Islam in all its cultural diversity.

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