Submitting to God: Women and Islam in Urban Malaysia
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Submitting to God: Women and Islam in Urban Malaysia (Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies)

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This study of the everyday religious practice of pious women within Kuala Lumpur's affluent Malay middle class reveals that women play an active part in the Islamization process by organizing and participating in public programs of religious education, transforming the traditionally male-dominated space of the mosque and breaking men's monopoly over positions of religious...more
Paperback, 216 pages
Published August 15th 2009 by University of Washington Press (first published 2009)
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