PrefaceAuthor BiographiesIntroduction: Islamic Authority and the Study of Female Religious Leaders, Hilary Kalmbach SECTION ISPACE FOR FEMALE AUTHORITY: MALE INVITATION, STATE INTERVENTION, AND FEMALE INITIATIVEIntroduction to Section I1.1 Sources of Authority: Female Ahong and Qingzhen Nüsi (Women's Mosques) in China, Maria Jaschok 1.2 Women Mosque Preachers and Spiritual Guides: Publicizing and Negotiating Women's Religious Authority in Morocco, Margaret J. Rausch 1.3 Reshaping Religious Authority in Contemporary Turkey: State-Sponsored Female Preachers, Mona Hassan 1.4 From Quranic Circles to the Internet: Gender Segregation and the Rise of Female Preachers in Saudi Arabia, Amélie Le Renard 1.5 The Life of Two Mujtahidahs : Female Religious Authority in Twentieth-Century Iran, Mirjam Künkler and Roja Fazaeli 1.6 The Qubaysiyyat: The Growth of an International Muslim Women's Revivalist Movement from Syria (1960-2008), Sarah Islam SECTION IIESTABLISHING FEMALE AUTHORITY: LIMITATIONS, SPACES, AND STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING AND PREACHING2.

1 Leading by Example? Women Madrasah Teachers in Rural North India, Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery, and Craig Jeffrey 2.2 Thinking for Oneself? Forms and Elements of Religious Authority in Dutch Muslim Women's Groups, Nathal M. Dessing 2.3 Celebrating Miss Muslim Pageants and Opposing Rock Concerts: Contrasting the Religious Authority and Leadership of Two Muslim Women in Kazan, N. R. Micinski 2.4 Textual and Ritual Command: Muslim Women as Keepers and Transmitters of Interpretive Domains in Contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina, Catharina Raudvere 2.5 "She is always present": Female Leadership and Informal Authority in a Swiss Muslim Women's Association, Petra Bleisch Bouzar 2.

6 Muslimahs' Impact on and Acquisition of Islamic Religious Authority in Flanders, Els Vanderwaeren 2.7 Women, Leadership, and Participation in Mosques and Beyond: Notes from Stuttgart, Germany, Petra Kuppinger 2.8 Remembering Faimah: New Means of Legitimizing Female Authority in Contemporary Shii Discourse, Matthew Pierce SECTION IIITHE IMPACT OF AUTHORITY ON MUSLIM WOMEN, MUSLIM SOCIETIES, AND CONCEPTIONS OF ISLAMIC AUTHORITYIntroduction to Section III3.1 Challenging from Within: Youth Associations and Female Leadership in Swedish Mosques, Pia Karlsson Minganti 3.2 Gender Strategy and Authority in Islamic Discourses: Female Preachers in Contemporary Egypt, Hiroko Minesaki 3.3 Translating Text to Context: Muslim Women Activists in Indonesia, Pieternella Van Doorn-Harder 3.4 Making Islam Relevant: Female Authority and Representation of Islam in Germany, Riem Spielhaus 3.5 Activism as Embodied Tafsir : Negotiating Women's Authority, Leadership, and Space in North America, Juliane Hammer 3.

6 Women's Rights to Mosque Space: Access and Participation in Cape Town Mosques, Uta Christina Lehmann Conclusion: Female Leadership in Mosques: An Evolving Narrative, Masooda Bano GlossaryIndex.