Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Women and Islam
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Women and Islam
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- A Note on Foreign-Language Words
- Introduction
- Part I Logic of Classical Reasoning
- Part II Asserting Agency in Faith
- 6 Becoming Salafi
- 7 Joining Political Islam
- 8 Conversions to Islam
- 9 Islamic Feminists’ Approaches
- 10 Women’s Mosques in China
- Part III Asserting Agency in Socio-Political Life
- Volume Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To … (continued from page ii)
- References
10 - Women’s Mosques in China
from Part II - Asserting Agency in Faith
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2025
Edited by
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Women and Islam
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Women and Islam
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- A Note on Foreign-Language Words
- Introduction
- Part I Logic of Classical Reasoning
- Part II Asserting Agency in Faith
- 6 Becoming Salafi
- 7 Joining Political Islam
- 8 Conversions to Islam
- 9 Islamic Feminists’ Approaches
- 10 Women’s Mosques in China
- Part III Asserting Agency in Socio-Political Life
- Volume Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To … (continued from page ii)
- References
Summary
Maria Jaschok analyzes the opportunities and challenges faced by Muslim women living as a minority, particularly in contexts where religion is under pressure. The chapter highlights the dynamism exhibited by female imams (ahongs) in China, who have strategically leveraged the pressure on male authority imposed by the Chinese state to carve out a larger role for themselves. The chapter also shows how these women seek to connect with the global Muslim community, or ummah, while relating Islam to their everyday realities.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge Companion to Women and Islam , pp. 234 - 258Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
References
Select Bibliography
Beng, Tan Sooi. ‘Singing Islamic Modernity: Recreating Nasyid in Malaysia’. Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia 8–9 (March 2007), https://kyotoreview.org/issue-8-9/singing-islamic-modernity-recreating-nasyid-in-malaysia/Google Scholar
Guangtian, Ha. The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.Google Scholar
Harris, Rachel. Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Harris, Rachel and Jaschok, Maria. ‘Introduction: Sounding Islam in China’. Performing Islam 3, nos. 1–2 (2014): 11–21.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Harris, Rachel, Ha, Guangtian, and Jaschok, Maria, eds. Ethnographies of Islam in China. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2021.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hélie, Anissa and Hoodfar, Homa, eds. Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions and Resistance. London: Zed Books, 2012.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jaschok, Maria. Inside the Expressive Culture of Chinese Women’s Mosques. London: Routledge, 2025.Google Scholar
Jaschok, Maria. ‘Sources of Authority: Female Ahong and Qingzhen Nüsi’. In Women, Leadership, and Mosques, ed. Bano, Masooda and Kalmbach, Hilary, 37–58. Leiden: Brill, 2012.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jaschok, Maria and Jingjun, Shui. The History of Women’s Mosques in Chinese Islam. New York: Curzon/Routledge, 2000.Google Scholar
Jaschok, Maria and Jingjun, Shui. Women, Religion, and Space in China: Islamic Mosques and Daoist Temples, Catholic Convents and Chinese Virgins. New York: Routledge, 2011.Google Scholar
Jaschok, Maria, Shui, Jingjun, and Caixia, Ge. ‘Equality, Voice, and a Chinese Hui Muslim Women’s Songbook: Collaborative Ethnography and Hui Muslim Women’s Expressive History of Faith’. In Ethnographies of Islam in China, ed. Harris, Rachel, Ha, Guangtian, and Jaschok, Maria, 180–203. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2021.Google Scholar
Jeenah, N. and Shaikh, Shamima, eds. Denying Women Access to the Main Space: A Betrayal of the Prophet. Cape Town: Full Moon Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Gang, Li. ‘Reasoning the Sharī‘a and Constructing a Proper Muslim Woman: Reflections on the Issue of Chinese Muslim Women’s Haircut in Republican China’. Journal of Chinese Religions 50, no. 2 (2022): 185–232.Google Scholar
Rosati, Francesca. ‘Women’s Qur’anic Schools in China’s Little Mecca’. In Ethnographies of Islam in China, ed. Harris, Rachel, Ha, Guangtian, and Jaschok, Maria, 155–79. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2021.Google Scholar