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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Woman- Led Friday Prayer -- 2. Women Leading Prayers -- 3. Gender Justice and Qurʾanic Exegesis -- 4. History, Women's Rights, and Islamic Law -- 5. Authority, Tradition, and Community -- 6. Space, Leadership, and Voice -- 7. Media, Representation(s), Politics -- 8. Memoirs, Narratives, and Marketing -- 9. Covers and Other Matters -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

An in-depth look at how Muslim American organizations address domestic violence within their communitiesIn Peaceful Families, Juliane Hammer chronicles and examines the efforts, stories, arguments, and strategies of individuals and organizations doing Muslim anti–domestic violence work in the United States. Looking at connections among ethical practices, gender norms, and religious interpretation, Hammer demonstrates how Muslim advocates mobilize a rich religious tradition in community efforts against domestic violence, identifying religion and culture as resources or roadblocks to prevent harm and to restore family peace.Drawing on her interviews with Muslim advocates, service providers, and religious leaders, Hammer paints a vivid picture of the challenges such advocacy work encounters. The insecurities of American Muslim communities facing intolerance and Islamophobia lead to additional challenges in acknowledging and confronting problems of spousal abuse, and Hammer reveals how Muslim anti–domestic violence workers combine the methods of the mainstream secular anti–domestic violence movement with Muslim perspectives and interpretations. Identifying a range of Muslim anti–domestic violence approaches, Hammer argues that at certain times and situations it may be imperative to combat domestic abuse by endorsing notions of "protective patriarchy"—even though service providers may hold feminist views critical of patriarchal assumptions. Hammer links Muslim advocacy efforts to the larger domestic violence crisis in the United States, and shows how, through extensive family and community networks, advocates participate in and further debates about family, gender, and marriage in global Muslim communities.Highlighting the place of Islam as an American religion, Peaceful Families delves into the efforts made by Muslim Americans against domestic violence and the ways this refashions the society at large

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Palestinian Migration, Refugees, and Return -- Chapter 2: Palestinian National Identity, Memory, and History -- Chapter 3: The Country of My Dreams -- Chapter 4: Return to Palestine: Dreams and Realities -- Chapter 5: The Return Process in Comparison -- Chapter 6: Rewriting of Identities in the Context of Diaspora and Return -- Chapter 7: Home and the Future of Palestinian Identities -- Epilogue -- Appendix: List of Respondents -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

AbstractThe 2005 woman-led Friday prayer in New York City generated broad media attention and significant levels of intra-Muslim debates about women's inclusion in mosques, gender roles, and textual interpretation. This essay examines the prayer event within the larger context of American Muslim women's contributions to reinterpretations of the Qur'an and their negotiations of religious authority, leadership roles, and mosque spaces in a North American context. The essay is based on the writings of American Muslim women on gender discourses and on media coverage, documentaries, and Internet sources produced by and about them. I argue that some of the initiatives toward gender inclusiveness in American mosques and communities should be read as an embodiment of gender-just interpretations of the Qur'an, and as products of particularly American and transnational constellations of Muslim discourses on gender. Another women's 'sit-in' at the Islamic Center in Washington, D.C., in February of 2010 serves as an epilogue to the essay.