Muslim Female Religious Authority in Russia: How Mukhlisa Bubi Became the First Female Qāḍī in the Modern Muslim World


On 11 May 1917, the participants of the All-Russia Muslim Congress elected a woman, Mukhlisa Bubi, as a qāḍī (a Muslim judge) to the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Inner Russia and Siberia. Granting legal authority to a woman at a central religious institution was unprecedented in th...

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Main Author: Garipova, Rozaliya (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2017, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 135-161
Further subjects:B Muslim modernism (Jadidism)
 women’s education
 reformist madrasa
 Mukhlisa Bubi (Mukhliṣa Būbī)
 legal authority
 abïstay

Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)