Reading the Qur'an in Bangladesh: The Politics of ‘Belief’ Among Islamist Women
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In Muslim communities in contemporary South Asia and other Muslim-majority areas, informal religious lesson circles are proliferating rapidly as mass higher education brings more Muslims under the umbrella of standardized, nationalized education systems. These study circles often revolve around the study of compendia of Qur'anic commentary or exegesis, hadith (written records of sayings and acts attributed to the Prophet Muhammad) such as the thirteenth-century Riyad al-Salihin, as well as Qur'anic commentaries and theological texts produced by authoritative traditional religious scholars, contemporary or recent.
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In Muslim communities in contemporary South Asia and other Muslim-majority areas, informal religious lesson circles are proliferating rapidly as mass higher education brings more Muslims under the umbrella of standardized, nationalized education systems. These study circles often revolve around the study of compendia of Qur'anic commentary or exegesis, hadith (written records of sayings and acts attributed to the Prophet Muhammad) such as the thirteenth-century Riyad al-Salihin, as well as Qur'anic commentaries and theological texts produced by authoritative traditional religious scholars, contemporary or recent.
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