Ansar al-Sunna and Women's Agency in Sudan: A Salafi Approach to Empowerment through Gender Segregation

Tønnessen, Liv

doi:10.5250/fronjwomestud.37.3.0092

“…The phenomenon of niqab in Sudan is relatively new and there is little academic research on the topic. The notable exceptions are Tønnessen (2016), and Abdel Munim on Salafi groups (2019). One could mention the work by Mohamed El Obeid which was mainly focusing on Ansar al Sunna Jama'a in Kassala and Gedaref States, 2 in her paper, "Sufi Brotherhoods in Kassala and Gedaref State" (1997).…”

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Women Wearing Niqab in Sudan: a Growing Phenomenon

Obeid¹

2020

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“…Scholars (Wiktorowicz 2006;Meijer 2009) often mention the three major factions: purist, political, and jihadi. The position of women within diverse Salafi movements and groups can be seen not only within Muslim majority countries (Nisa 2012(Nisa , 2013(Nisa , 2014Inge 2016;Tønnessen 2016;Kolman 2017). My work focuses on Salafi women within purist and political Salafism-to borrow Wiktorowicz's classification-in Indonesia.…”

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“…The struggle of these Salafi women to defend their conservative understandings of Islam can be seen in Muslim majority and Western countries. Liv Tønnessen (2016), for example, concentrates on the political agency of Salafi women in Sudan in their fight against the state's understanding of gender mixing (in Tunisia see Kolman 2017). Anabel Inge (2016) analyses the life of young, British Salafi women and their process of conversion, as well as the constraints they face when negotiating between their Salafi identity and Western lifestyle (on Moroccan-Dutch Salafi women, see de Koning 2009).…”

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Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements

Akhlaq

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2023

Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations

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with a Master of Arts degree, he taught at various schools shaping students to be better versions of themselves. Away from the pressures of the Ministry, he devotes long hours and devours countless cups of teh halia (a local brew of ginger tea) researching on the Moorish Science Temple of America and the Nation of Islam which has been published in several academic journals as well as featured on the websites of these religious movements. He lives in Punggol, an isolated nook in the northeast of Singapore, with his wife and three kids and lives for Islam, historical research, and football.Kaarina Aitamurto holds a position of a senior researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. Her areas of expertise include contemporary Paganism, nationalism, and the governance of Islam in Russia. She was a fellow at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies "Choices of Russian Modernization", funded by the Academy of Finland (2012-2017) and currently works in the project "Migration,

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“…Scholars (Wiktorowicz 2006;Meijer 2009) often mention the three major factions: purist, political, and jihadi. The position of women within diverse Salafi movements and groups can be seen not only within Muslim majority countries (Nisa 2012(Nisa , 2013(Nisa , 2014Inge 2016;Tønnessen 2016;Kolman 2017). My work focuses on Salafi women within purist and political Salafism-to borrow Wiktorowicz's classification-in Indonesia.…”

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Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements

Upal¹,

Cusack²

2021

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with a Master of Arts degree, he taught at various schools shaping students to be better versions of themselves. Away from the pressures of the Ministry, he devotes long hours and devours countless cups of teh halia (a local brew of ginger tea) researching on the Moorish Science Temple of America and the Nation of Islam which has been published in several academic journals as well as featured on the websites of these religious movements. He lives in Punggol, an isolated nook in the northeast of Singapore, with his wife and three kids and lives for Islam, historical research, and football.

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Ansar al-Sunna and Women's Agency in Sudan: A Salafi Approach to Empowerment through Gender Segregation

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Women Wearing Niqab in Sudan: a Growing Phenomenon

Women Wearing Niqab in Sudan: a Growing Phenomenon

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