In the last decade a number of women-led mosques have emerged in Europe and North America. In The Making of a Mosque with Female Imams Jesper Petersen documents the serendipitous, yet predictable, emergence of the Mariam Mosque in Copenhagen. The study first demonstrates that individuals’ facing the unpredictable plays a decisive role in social processes. This leads to an investigation of how serendipities are erased when narratives are erected retrospectively in the form of commodified products, autobiographical narratives, and research. Furthermore, Petersen conceptualizes non-Muslims’ theological productions of Islam – Islam without the worship of Allah, so to speak – and demonstrates how this influences Muslim productions of Islam.
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In the last decade a number of women-led mosques have emerged in Europe and North America. In The Making of a Mosque with Female Imams Jesper Petersen documents the serendipitous, yet predictable, emergence of the Mariam Mosque in Copenhagen.
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Acknowledgements List of figures Chapter 1: Entering the field Chapter 2: Ethnographic methodology Chapter 3: Muslims in Denmark Chapter 4 Sherin Khankan Chapter 5: The emergence of a religious demand Chapter 6: The serendipitous spread of a story Chapter 7: Planning the founding of Femimam Chapter 8: The serendipitous emergence of an institution Chapter 9: The pop-up mosque and its social media adhan Chapter 10: The first Mariam Mosque Chapter 11: Politicized and commodified narratives of Sherin Khankan Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Product details

ISBN
9789004523012
Published
2022
Publisher
Brill
Weight
646 gr
Height
235 mm
Width
155 mm
Thickness
25 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
312

Biographical note

Jesper Petersen, PhD (2020) is a Danish historian of religion specialized in Islamic studies, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Producing Sharia in Context project at Copenhagen University.