REL 363 WOMEN IN ISLAM: VENERATION, VEILS AND VOICES
This course explores Muslim women's religious roles, participation and practices throughout the history of Islam and across a variety of cultural contexts. Attention will be paid to the diversity of interpretations concerning textual prescriptions about women in Islam and to women's own articulations about their religious identities, and to how the ways that women have negotiated their everyday religious lives are intimately related to social location, economic considerations and political developments.