All Women Mosque in Uttar Pradesh India
An encouraging news from India towards Muslim women more voice, prominence, role and visibility in Islam.
One hopes such efforts spread around the world.
http://www.gulfnews.com/world/India/10211779.html
Muslim women law board moots mosques for women
By Masood Hasan, Correspondent
Published: May 09, 2008, 00:44
Lucknow: The All-India Muslim Women Personal Law Board has proposed the setting up of separate mosques for women to enable them to pray five times a day.
The proposal has created a stir among religious leaders in Uttar Pradesh.
Shaista Amber, president of the All-India Muslim Women Personal Law Board, who mooted the idea, called on ulema and leaders of the community to seriously consider the proposal because it would also help women participate in religious functions.
http://www.countercurrents.org/gender-anand020904.htm
Daud Sharifa is meeting a group of distressed Muslim women - business as usual at her red-brick office in sleepy Pudukkottai, in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu.
The Darul Uloom, an Islamic seminary in Deoband, has hit out at the proposal. The deputy in-charge of the edict department at the seminary, Mufti Ehsan Qasmi, said Islam did not permit women to lead prayers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3429695.stm
One hopes such efforts spread around the world.
http://www.gulfnews.com/world/India/10211779.html
Muslim women law board moots mosques for women
By Masood Hasan, Correspondent
Published: May 09, 2008, 00:44
Lucknow: The All-India Muslim Women Personal Law Board has proposed the setting up of separate mosques for women to enable them to pray five times a day.
The proposal has created a stir among religious leaders in Uttar Pradesh.
Shaista Amber, president of the All-India Muslim Women Personal Law Board, who mooted the idea, called on ulema and leaders of the community to seriously consider the proposal because it would also help women participate in religious functions.
http://www.countercurrents.org/gender-anand020904.htm
Daud Sharifa is meeting a group of distressed Muslim women - business as usual at her red-brick office in sleepy Pudukkottai, in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu.
The Darul Uloom, an Islamic seminary in Deoband, has hit out at the proposal. The deputy in-charge of the edict department at the seminary, Mufti Ehsan Qasmi, said Islam did not permit women to lead prayers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3429695.stm
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