FEMALE ISLAMIC LEADERSHIP RESEARCH NETWORK
Academics
interested in any aspect of female religious
authority or leadership in Islamic communities worldwide - historical or contemporary
- should join this network. The goal of the list is to enable academics
spread across a wide variety of disciplines to pass along relevant
information and resources, and to discuss topics of interest.
WHY THIS NETWORK
This research
network is an outgrowth of a conference held in October 2009 at St Antony's
College, University of Oxford on contemporary female Islamic authority, Women,
Leadership and Mosques: Changes in Contemporary Islamic Authority. The conference focused on the growing number of women active
teaching, preaching, interpreting scriptures, or leading prayer in mosques or
madrasas around the world.
The large
response to the call for papers for this conference made it clear that
academic interest in this topic is high and increasing, and also that
academics working on this topic are divided by an unusually large number of
disciplinary boundaries. A virtual network with a mailing list is an ideal
way to connect scholars interested in this topic.
The network
is open to scholars studying any aspects of female religious leadership in
Islam, and therefore includes topics outside the conference's purview, for
instance, the reinterpretation of Islamic scriptures by women who are
primarily active outside of mosques and madrasas.
THE NETWORK
Network
members study Islamic communities around the world and are active in a wide
variety of disciplines, including Islamic Studies, Women’s Studies, Development
Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, History and Area
Studies. They are based at universities around the world, including in the United Kingdom, United
States, Europe, the
Middle East, North Africa and Asia.
The virtual
backbone of the research network is a mailing list, sponsored by JISC, and a 'Mailing List' group on Academia.edu.
TO JOIN US
To join
the JISC list, either
- send an email to listserve@JISCMail.ac.uk with
only the following text in the body of the email: “subscribe
ISLAM-FEMALE-LEADERSHIP FIRSTNAME LASTNAME” (where FIRSTNAME and
LASTNAME are your first and last names, respectively),
or,
- go to the list page, www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ISLAM-FEMALE-LEADERSHIP,
choose ‘Join or Leave ISLAM-FEMALE-LEADERSHIP’ and enter your details.
To join
us on Academia.edu, do the following:
- sign up (or sign into) Academia.edu
- go to our list page,
and click on "I am a member,"
or (if this does not work),
- go to the general
list page, search for "Islam", find "Female Islamic
Leadership," and click on the brown “I am a member of Female
Islamic Leadership” button.
FURTHER DETAILS
- For detailed instructions on how to use the mailing
list (subscribing, unsubscribing, changing to digest, stopping messages
over vacations, etc.), see here.
- Potential members need to be approved by the list
owner before they can access the list.
- Once on the list, all members can email the list
directly (until this proves a problem).
- All messages must be signed. Please no anonymous
messages.
- Clicking ‘Reply’ automatically replies to the sender,
but not the list. To reply to the list, include the list address as a
recipient.
- Users must abide by JISC’s Acceptable Use
Policy, as well as basic list
etiquette.
If you have comments or concerns about how the list is
set up, or how it is being used, please contact Hilary Kalmbach.
hilary.kalmbach@sant.ox.ac.uk
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