Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam.(Book Review)

From: Sociology of Religion | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Ghozzi, Kamel | Copyright information

Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam, by CAROLYN MOXLEY ROUSE. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004, 271pp.; $50.00 USD (cloth), $19.95 USD (paper).

Very few Muslim women have historically engaged in tafsir or the process of interpretation and reinterpretation of Islam's referential texts. Although Islam does not officially have an ordained priesthood, the process of informing Islamic authoritative discourses has nevertheless remained the monopol...

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