1997
DOI: 10.1080/02634939708400967
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Otines: The unknown women clerics of Central Asian Islam∗

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“…Fathi 1997) and, according to them, Islamically legitimate spaces of empowerment and support. For Fatima-hon, Islam required a social environment for studying and prayer, while for Nodira-opa, socio-economic changes in the postSoviet Uzbekistan and women's active participation in the local economy made women's religious and social gatherings legitimate and as important as the ones attended by the men: Yes many women go to ihson and gap.…”
Section: Women Domestic Space and The State In The Ferghana Valleymentioning
confidence: 98%
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“…Fathi 1997) and, according to them, Islamically legitimate spaces of empowerment and support. For Fatima-hon, Islam required a social environment for studying and prayer, while for Nodira-opa, socio-economic changes in the postSoviet Uzbekistan and women's active participation in the local economy made women's religious and social gatherings legitimate and as important as the ones attended by the men: Yes many women go to ihson and gap.…”
Section: Women Domestic Space and The State In The Ferghana Valleymentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Hoodfar 2001;Mahmood 2005;von Doorn-Harder 2006;Jaschok and Jingjun 2000;Horvatich 1994;Shalinsky 1996;Privratsky 2004). In anthropological literature on post-Soviet Central Asia, otinchalar are variously described as female clerics/mullahs (Fathi 1997;Kramer 2002); a distinctive age-group of elder women who act as guardians of tradition (Alimova and Azimova 2000;Corcoran-Nantes 2005); a mechanism of female religious education (Constantine 2007;Kamp 2006;Kandiyoti and Azimova 2004), women preachers (Sultanova 2000;Imamkhodjaeva 2005), and as a mechanism of conflict mediation within local families (Gorshunova 2001). These women, important religious leaders, were capable of transforming domestic space into a sacred place for religious observance on certain occasions in the Valley.…”
Section: Space Religion and Gendermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…But there are others too: we hear of it meaning 'commander of fifty men' (Fagnan 1923: 49); and we also find it with the more specialized meaning of 'slave in the service of the palace', in al-Andalus, Islamic Spain (Dozy 1881:1, 397). And in Afghanistan, lastly, xalifa means 'truckdriver' (see Fathi 1997Fathi , 1998. In early eleventh-century Spain, we even find two very minor and short-lived rulers who were called khalifa, possibly as a sort of title deriving from this (Wasserstein 1985: 158 n.8).…”
Section: Etymology and Meaningsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A new set of codes and civil tribunals replaced the traditional and Shariah based tribunals which had previously regulated life. [21] In 1918, the official registration of marriages, births and deaths was made compulsory while religious marriages (nikah) were banned. Instead of Shariah code, Soviet divorce law was introduced, to give women greater protection.…”
Section: Pre-soviet Periodmentioning
confidence: 99%