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Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Islamic Authority and the Study of Female Religious Leaders /Hilary Kalmbach -- Introduction to Section I -- Sources of Authority: Female Ahong and Qingzhen Nüsi (Women's Mosques) in China /Maria Jaschok -- Women Mosque Preachers and Spiritual Guides: Publicizing and Negotiating Women's Religious Authority in Morocco /Margaret J. Rausch -- Reshaping Religious Authority in Contemporary Turkey: State-Sponsored Female Preachers /Mona Hassan -- From Qurʾānic Circles to the Internet: Gender Segregation and the Rise of Female Preachers in Saudi Arabia /Amélie Le Renard -- The Life of Two Mujtahidahs: Female Religious Authority in Twentieth-Century Iran /Mirjam Künkler and Roja Fazaeli -- The Qubaysīyyāt: The Growth of an International Muslim Women's Revivalist Movement from Syria (1960–2008) /Sarah Islam -- Introduction to Section II -- Leading by Example? Women Madrasah Teachers in Rural North India /Patricia Jeffery , Roger Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey -- Thinking for Oneself? Forms and Elements of Religious Authority in Dutch Muslim Women's Groups /Nathal M. Dessing -- Celebrating Miss Muslim Pageants and Opposing Rock Concerts: Contrasting the Religious Authority and Leadership of Two Muslim Women in Kazan /N. R. Micinski -- Textual and Ritual Command: Muslim Women as Keepers and Transmitters of Interpretive Domains in Contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina /Catharina Raudvere -- "She is Always Present": Female Leadership and Informal Authority in a Swiss Muslim Women's Association /Petra Bleisch Bouzar -- Muslimahs' Impact on and Acquisition of Islamic Religious Authority in Flanders /Els Vanderwaeren -- Women, Leadership, and Participation in Mosques and Beyond: Notes from Stuttgart, Germany /Petra Kuppinger -- Remembering Fāṭimah: New Means of Legitimizing Female Authority in Contemporary Shīʿī Discourse /Matthew Pierce -- Introduction to Section III -- Challenging from Within: Youth Associations and Female Leadership in Swedish Mosques /Pia Karlsson Minganti -- Gender Strategy and Authority in Islamic Discourses: Female Preachers in Contemporary Egypt /Hiroko Minesaki -- Translating Text to Context: Muslim Women Activists in Indonesia /Pieternella van Doorn-Harder -- Making Islam Relevant: Female Authority and Representation of Islam in Germany /Riem Spielhaus -- Activism as Embodied Tafsīr: Negotiating Women's Authority, Leadership, and Space in North America /Juliane Hammer -- Women's Rights to Mosque Space: Access and Participation in Cape Town Mosques /Uta Christina Lehmann -- Conclusion: Female Leadership in Mosques: an Evolving Narrative /Masooda Bano -- Glossary -- Index.

Abstract
Concerns for the vulnerable, the poor and marginalised, both human and non-human, are central to the Christian and Muslim religions. This special issue focuses on the one hand on Catholic social thought and practice with regard to care for the poor and care for the earth, and on the other hand on historical and contemporary Islamic social thought and practice. In this introduction, we set the context of the dialogue and of this special issue. At a general level, we emphasise the centrality of love of God and love of neighbour in both Christianity and Islam. We then focus on the Catholic and Sunni traditions. We discuss how each understands the relationship between love of God/love of neighbour and the different organisational structures and practices which express this love. We highlight some commonalities and differences between teachings, organisational structures and historical and social contexts. We conclude by outlining some areas of mutual learning with regard to the centrality of care for the poor and for the earth in both religions.