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To examine the concept of a mosque in more detail, Fewkes asks a series of questions in this chapter about how we define these spaces. Defining women’s mosques broadly as Muslim places of worship that are solely for women, with prayers for women led by women, she considers how these spaces are related to the women’s prayer rooms found in many Muslim communities. Fewkes then reviews the general phenomenon of women’s Islamic prayer spaces through case studies of spaces that have been called women’s mosques, in Egypt, China, Kenya, Senegal, Somalia, the Lakshadweep Islands, the Comoros Islands, India, Malaysia, and the Maldives. The chapter ends with a reflection on the common themes that draw these examples together.

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Fewkes, J.H. (2019). Locating Women’s Mosques. In: Locating Maldivian Women’s Mosques in Global Discourses . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13585-0_5

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