Knowledge, Empowerment and Religious Authority Among Pious Muslim Women in France and Germany

Jouili, Jeanette S.; Amir-Moazami, Schirin

doi:10.1111/j.1478-1913.2006.00150.x

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“…This stress on the acquisition of knowledge was, as has also been underlined in other studies of young pious Muslim women in Europe (jouili and Amir-Moazami, 2006;Minganti, 2007;Fadil, 2008;Jouili, 2008), largely effectuated through the idea of an individual and personal search for truth.…”

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Troublesome Threesome: Feminism, Anthropology and Muslim Women's Piety

Jacobsen¹

2011

Feminist Review

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This article critically addresses recent anthropological and feminist efforts to theorize and analyse Muslim women's participation in and support for the Islamic revival in its various manifestations. Drawing on ethnographic material from research on young Muslims engaged in Islamic youth and student-organizations in Norway, I investigate some of the challenges that researching religious subjectivities and practices pose to feminist theory. In particular, I deal with how to understand women's religious piety in relation to questions of self, agency and resistance. Engaging with Saba Mahmood's work on The Politics of Piety, this article suggests ways of understanding the young women's religious engagement that move beyond the confines of a binary model of subordination and resistance, coercion and choice. Grounding the discussion in ethnographic analysis of how young Muslim women in Norway speak about the ‘self’, I argue that critically revisiting feminist notions of agency, autonomy and desire, is necessary in order to understand the kinds of self-realization that these women aspire to. However, the article argues against positing Muslim conceptions and techniques of the self as ‘the other’ of liberal-secular traditions. Rather, I show how configurations of personhood, ethics and self-realization drawn from Islamic and liberal-secular discursive formations inhabit not only the same cultural and historical space, but also shape individual subjectivities and modes of agency.

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Troublesome Threesome: Feminism, Anthropology and Muslim Women's Piety

Jacobsen¹

2011

Feminist Review

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“…Asimismo, la necesidad que sienten mis interlocutoras de transmitir una imagen positiva del islam en contra de la visión negativa tan presente en los medios de comunicación y la 9 En una reunión de 30 chicas unas 5 ó 6 no llevan el pañuelo islámico. 10 Los estudios realizados sobre mujeres musulmanas piadosas en Alemania y Francia (Jouili y Amir-Moazami, 2006), Egipto (Mahmood, 2012) y el Líbano (Deeb, 2006), así como la obra de Virtudes Téllez (2011:288) respecto a España, reflejan un mismo entendimiento. 11 En un momento de la entrevista Nur dice: "Pues ya empiezas a distinguir entre tradiciones...y lo que es el islam y mis creencias.…”

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En busca de autoridad. Jóvenes musulmanas y conocimiento religioso en Madrid. In Search of Authority: Young Muslim females and Religious Knowledge in Madrid

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2016

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“…Jouili and Amir-Moazami 2006). Following Charles Hirschkind (2001) and Saba Mahmood (2005), these authors reject a simple dichotomy between resistance and conformity, or between personal autonomy and subjection to the community, emphasising that submission to religious authorities can be a deliberate act by Muslims -they look primarily at youth and women -in their quest for spiritual self-fulfilment (Jouili and AmirMoazami 2006;Bracke 2008;Jacobsen 2011, 325-9).…”

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“…The significance of supportive communities marks neither a unique situation for Muslims nor an exclusive issue of 'Islam in the West'. These pedagogical settings can be seen both as disciplinary spaces, in which Islamic -or Christian -subjectivities are cultivated and regulated (Asad 1993, 125, passim), and as spaces in which young believers self-consciously participate in order to learn about their religion and strengthen their personal piety (Jouili and Amir-Moazami 2006).…”

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A moment of persuasion: travelling preachers and Islamic pedagogy in the Netherlands

Beekers

2015

Culture and Religion

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In this article, I examine the discursive as well as embodied and sensorial forms of persuasion that undergird the formation of religious authority, Islamic authority in the Netherlands more specifically. I argue that particular momentary occasions can play important roles in facilitating the mobilization of these discursive and non-discursive forms of persuasion. Based on a close reading of an event I participated in during my fieldwork among young Muslims in the Netherlands, the analysis focuses on such a key moment of persuasion, paradoxically characterised by a preacher's apparently failed attempt at conversion. Despite this failure, this preacher can be seen to have succeeded in offering his young Muslim audience a model of how to be a Muslim and of how to represent Islam to non-Muslims. Apart from contributing to anthropological debates on Islamic authority in Europe and religious persuasion more generally, I discuss an important new type of Islamic leaders -referred to here as 'travelling preachers' -and the new kinds of youth-centred settings of religious learning in which they operate.

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Knowledge, Empowerment and Religious Authority Among Pious Muslim Women in France and Germany

Cited by 81 publications

References 5 publications

Troublesome Threesome: Feminism, Anthropology and Muslim Women's Piety

Troublesome Threesome: Feminism, Anthropology and Muslim Women's Piety

En busca de autoridad. Jóvenes musulmanas y conocimiento religioso en Madrid. In Search of Authority: Young Muslim females and Religious Knowledge in Madrid

A moment of persuasion: travelling preachers and Islamic pedagogy in the Netherlands

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