Reprint of the 1907 first edition. With a number of reproductions. xv, 126 pages. cloth.. 8vo..

The book makers of old Birmingham: authors, printers, and book sellers (Burt Franklin research and source works series, 872. Essays in literature and criticism, 167)

Computers & Technology

Hill, Joseph

Graphics & Design

B. Franklin

Lexicon Manuale: Graeco-Latinum Et Latino-Graecum (Greek Edition)

Reference

Schrevel, Cornelis

Entick, John

Words, Language & Grammar

Legare Street Press

Transcript Of The First Register Book Of The Parish Church Of St. Martins, Birmingham: 1554-1653 (1889)

Bickley, William B.

Kessinger Publishing

Memorials Of The Old Square: Being Some Notices Of The Priory Of St. Thomas In Birmingham (1897)

Literature & Fiction

Dent, Robert Kirkup

Literary

Cornelii Schrevelii Lexicon Manuale, Græco-Latinum Et Latino-Græcum: Studio Atque Opera Josephi Hill, Joannis Entick, Nec Non Gulielmi Bowyer, ... Quibus Omnia Gr. Ling. Primiti...

History

Nabu Press

Memorials of the Old Square: Being Some Notices of the Priory of St. Thomas in Birmingham, and the Lands Appertaining Thereto; Also of the Square ... with Notes Concerning the Dwellers in Th

Shakespeare's Birthplace and Adjoining Properties

Dramas & Plays

Cornelii Schrevelii Lexicon Manuale Graeco-Latinum Et Latino-Graecum (Latin Edition)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Since around 2000, a growing number of women in Dakar, Senegal have come to act openly as spiritual leaders for both men and women. As urban youth turn to the Fayḍa Tijāniyya Sufi Islamic movement in search of direction and community, these women provide guidance in practicing Islam and cultivating mystical knowledge of God. While women Islamic leaders may appear radical in a context where women have rarely exercised Islamic authority, they have provoked surprisingly little controversy. Wrapping Authority tells these women’s stories and explores how they have developed ways of leading that feel natural to themselves and those around them. Addressing the dominant perceptions of Islam as a conservative practise, with stringent regulations for women in particular, Joseph Hill reveals how women integrate values typically associated with pious Muslim women into their leadership. These female leaders present spiritual guidance as a form of nurturing motherhood; they turn acts of devotional cooking into a basis of religious authority and prestige; they connect shyness, concealing clothing, and other forms of feminine “self-wrapping” to exemplary piety, hidden knowledge, and charismatic mystique. Yet like Sufi mystical discourse, their self-presentations are profoundly ambiguous, insisting simultaneously on gender distinctions and on the transcendence of gender through mystical unity with God.

Wrapping Authority: Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal (Anthropological Horizons)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

University of Toronto Press

Since around 2000, a growing number of women in Dakar, Senegal have come to act openly as spiritual leaders for both men and women. As urban youth turn to the Fayḍa Tijāniyya Sufi Islamic movement in search of direction and community, these women provide guidance in practicing Islam and cultivating mystical knowledge of God. While women Islamic leaders may appear radical in a context where women have rarely exercised Islamic authority, they have provoked surprisingly little controversy. Wrapping Authority tells these women’s stories and explores how they have developed ways of leading that feel natural to themselves and those around them. 
 Addressing the dominant perceptions of Islam as a conservative practise, with stringent regulations for women in particular, Joseph Hill reveals how women integrate values typically associated with pious Muslim women into their leadership. These female leaders present spiritual guidance as a form of nurturing motherhood; they turn acts of devotional cooking into a basis of religious authority and prestige; they connect shyness, concealing clothing, and other forms of feminine “self-wrapping” to exemplary piety, hidden knowledge, and charismatic mystique. Yet like Sufi mystical discourse, their self-presentations are profoundly ambiguous, insisting simultaneously on gender distinctions and on the transcendence of gender through mystical unity with God.

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