Scholars of Faith: South Asian Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge Laura Vanderkam ISBN-13: 978-0385480017

ISBN-13: 978-0385480017

A young boy prepares to pray with his family before he hears some familiar voices at the door

Faizah knows the first day of school is going to be special

his laboring for provision

how can she observe Ramadan

Scholars of Faith: South Asian Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge Laura Vanderkam ISBN-13: 978-0385480017Since the late twentieth century, new institutions of Islamic learning for South Asian women and girls have emerged rapidly, particularly in urban areas and in the diaspora. This book reflects upon the increased access of Muslim girls and women to religious education and the purposes to which they seek to put their learning. Scholars of Faith is based on ethnographic fieldwork in two institutions of religious learning: the Jami'a Nur madrasa in