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Women and Islamic revival in a West African town (Record no. 34336)

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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 305.48/697096626
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Masquelier, Adeline Marie,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Women and Islamic revival in a West African town
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Bloomington :
Name of publisher Indiana University Press,
Year of publication c2009.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xxviii, 343 p.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Gender and Islam in Dogondoutchi -- "Those who pray": religious transformations in the colonial and early postcolonial period -- Debating Muslims, disputed practices: the new public face of Islam -- When charisma comes to town: Malam Awal or the making of a modern saint -- Building a mosque in the home of a spirit: changing topographies of power and piety -- How is a girl to marry without a bed? Weddings, wealth, and women's value -- Fashioning Muslimhood: dress, modesty, and the construction of the virtuous woman -- "The fart does not light the fire": "bad" women, "true" believers, and the reconfiguration of moral domesticity.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Muslim women
Topical Term Women
Topical Term Islam
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10354158

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