Women mosque

Small women's mosque in Byblos, Lebanon

Women's mosques ( Chinese  清真 女 寺 , Pinyin qīngzhēn nǚsì , short: 女 寺 , nǚsì , English Women's mosques , French Mosquées féminines ) have a history of over three hundred years in China . They are particularly numerous among the Hui Chinese in the Chinese provinces of Henan , Shanxi and Hebei .

These are mosques specially set up for women by the Islamic community . In contrast, in the Islamic world outside of China, it is not common for gender-segregated mosques to exist. There men and women perform their services together in a mosque, although they use separate washrooms and prayer rooms. At the end of the Ming and beginning of the Qing Dynasty , Chinese women began to found their own mosques.

The Muslim community had previously started to train more women theologically for religious reasons. As a result, some of the female Muslims who had received a religious upbringing gradually became involved in daily religious activities, and this later led to the establishment of women's mosques.

Since the 20th century there have been separate places of prayer as women's mosques, that is, as a special form of sacred building, either as a separate mosque or attached to an existing larger mosque. Its leaders are women, wives of the Akhunds (“ Imam ”) of a larger mosque, or others. The common title used for them is Shiniang ( Chinese  师娘 , Pinyin shiniang ).

Overview

Women's mosques in China

• Beidajie Nüsi, Zhengzhou ( Henan )
• Beixiajie Nüsi, Zhengzhou
• Minzhulu Nüsi, Zhengzhou
• Xishilipu Nüsi, Zhengzhou
• Jiangfanglu Nüsi, Xi'an ( Shaanxi )
• Qian Xinchengdao Nüsi (Hohhot Nüsi), Hohhot ( Inner Mongolia )
• Hexi Nüsi, Zhoukou ( Henan )
• Tiedanjie Nüsi Kaifeng ( Henan )
• Ms. Mosque of Beijing ( mosque Women's , jap.)
• Shanghai Women's Mosque ( web )

Women's mosques outside of China

Asia

• Bukhara , Uzbekistan
• Kabul , Afghanistan
• Maldives
• Byblos , Lebanon

Africa

• Khartoum , Sudan
• Gabiley , Northern Somalia

Europe

• Amsterdam , Netherlands
• Berlin

literature

• Elisabeth Allés: Des oulémas femmes. Le cas des mosquées féminines en Chine . In: Revue du monde musulman et de la Méditerranée , vol. 85 (1999), issue 85/86, pp. 215-236, ISSN  0035-1474
• Maria Jaschok: Religious Women in a Chinese City. Ordering the past, recovering the future - Notes from fieldwork in the central Chinese province of Henan (QEHWPS, 125; PDF; 87 kB). Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford 2005 (QEH Working Paper Number 124)
• icampus.ucl.ac.be Les minorités musulmanes en Chine ("Les mosquées féminines") .
• Maria Jaschok, Jingjun Shui: The History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam . Curzon Press, Richmond, Surrey 2000, ISBN 0-7007-1302-6 .
  • Chinese: Zhongguo Qingzhen nüsi shi中国 清真 女 寺 史 (水镜 君 / (英) 玛利亚 • 雅绍克). ISBN 978-710801699-7 (see preview )
• Ping-Chun Hsiung, Maria Jaschok, Cecilia Nathansen Milwertz: Chinese women organizing. Cadres, feminists, Muslims, queers (Cross-cultural perspectives on women; Vol. 23). Mountain. Publ., Oxford 2001, ISBN 1-85973-536-3 .
• Maria Jaschok, Jingjun Shui: Restoring history to women, restoring women to history. Reconstructing the evolution of Qingzhen Nüsi (women's mosques) in China's Islam . In: Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies , Vol. 10 (2003), Issue 2, pp. 153-173, ISSN  1024-1256

See also

• Hui Chinese
• Mourchida

Web links

• For the Hui, Women Imams and Women's Mosques (China) - English
• Mosquées féminines (Qingzhen nusi) - French
• China's nu Ahong - English
• Qingzhen nüsi zai Xuanwu Shouliu hutong 39 hao - Chinese
• China: Female Imams a tradition in Chinese mosques - English
• Yisilanjiao baiyi - Chinese

References and footnotes

1. ^ Maria Jaschok: " Religious Women in a Chinese City: Ordering the past, recovering the future - Notes from fieldwork in the central Chinese province of Henan (PDF; 87 kB)". QEH Working Paper Series - QEHWPS125 , p. 8
2. ↑ icampus.ucl.ac.be "Les minorités musulmanes en Chine" ("Les mosquées féminines")  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (found on April 1, 2010)  
3. ↑ cf. chinalink.de: The Chinese woman (found on April 1, 2010)
4. ↑ cnki.com.cn: Beijing lishi shang de Qingzhen nüsi (found on April 1, 2010)
5. ↑ Chinese  阿訇 , Pinyin Ahong ; see. " Female imams ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ", Source: Jaschok, Maria and Jingju Shui, pp. 287–292, translation from English: C. Schneider (found on April 1, 2010) & Ingrid Mattson : " Can a Woman be an Imam? ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. "- macdonald.hartsem.edu (found on April 1, 2010)  
6. ↑ Sources: Maria Jaschok & Jingjun Shui, p. 161 (some spellings were slightly modified), s. a. the work of Elisabeth Allés and the links given.
7. ↑ Zhengzhou counts according to algerie-dz.com: "Mosquées féminines" ("Qingzhen nusi") 18 mosques for men and 7 mosques for women.
8. ↑ cf. flickr.com: A Women's Mosque in Xian (found April 1, 2010)
9. ↑ moritzleuenberger.net  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and sambuh.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : "Abu'l Faiz Khan Mosque (1720)" (found April 1); see. the article Nakschibendi .    
10. ↑ deutsche-welle.de: First mosque for women in Kabul (found on April 1, 2010)
11. ↑ haumaldives.wordpress.com: Aid to women's mosques terminated and women Imam's left jobless, as if the deprivations the MDP government of Mohamed Nasheed cause is not enough. ( Memento of March 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (found on April 1) - See also Islam in the Maldives (en)
12. ↑ giga-hamburg.de (found on April 1, 2010)
13. ↑ unesco.org (found on April 1st; PDF; 452 kB)
14. ↑ welt.de: "Women's mosque for Dutch feminists" (found on April 1, 2010)
15. ↑ loccum.de: "How will the dialogue continue?" (found on April 1, 2010; PDF; 57 kB) & dmk-berlin.de: "Mosques and Prayer Rooms in Berlin" ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (found on April 1, 2010)