the story of Al-Huda and islamic revivalism among urban Pakistani women
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ahmad, Sadaf
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- V IND 8 2009
- Thesaurus
- islam, gezinnen, dagelijks leven, hoofddoeken, Pakistan
- Description
- Over the last fifteen years, there have been an increasing number of middle- and upper-class urban Pakistani women actively turning toward Islam via Al-Huda, an Islamic school for women that aims to transform the women who absorb its message into 'pious' subjects. Established in the early 1990s, Al-Huda is unique in its ability to attract a following among these women, a feat other religious groups have been unsuccessful in accomplishing. .In this book Ahmad explores the multiple reasons behind Al-Huda's success among a new generation of educated, urban, middle-class women. She presents an engrossing and sensitive account of how the school's persuasive teaching methods have combined with and built upon women's faith, and the impact this has on them, their families and the larger society. Ahmad's work demonstrates Al-Huda's ever-widening teachings and influence in Pakistan and in its recent global extensions. This book also shows how Al-Huda uses the trappings of modernity to engage educated women in a kind of religious study that transforms their ideology, behavior, and lifestyle within a particular Islamic framework.