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In this chapter, Fewkes returns to the issue of the widespread perceived novelty of women’s mosques and contemplates the silences related to women’s mosques in global conversations about the histories of Muslim communities. To this end, she recognizes the role of the local—island and national—in Maldivian women’s mosques and goes on to deliberate upon the role of the global in two ways: first, in terms of how transnational processes such as the historical Indian Ocean trade and development agencies have contributed to the signification of women’s mosques in the Maldives, and second, how the concept of the global ummah, a shared notion of a worldwide Muslim community, relates to these places.
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Fewkes, J.H. (2019). Contexts and Discourses. In: Locating Maldivian Women’s Mosques in Global Discourses . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13585-0_7
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