Scholars of Faith: South Asian Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge Laura Vanderkam Faizah knows the first day

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

ISBN-13: 978-0385480017

000 pages and thirty volumes—here abridged to one volume

ISBN-10: 0525559493

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

Scholars of Faith: South Asian Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge Laura Vanderkam Faizah knows the first daySince 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