Abstract
In this article, I examine the gendered transmission of religious knowledge in Morocco based on my ethnographic fieldwork among women's Koranic exegesis circles in Casablanca. Since the 2004 reform, female preachers have been operating within an institutional framework where their legitimacy is recognised but constrained by the norms of ‘moderate Islam’, while parallel spaces – domestic and digital – are developing that are more open to discursive innovation and multilingual registers. Using an auto-ethnographic approach, I use my body, engaged in ritual and social practices, as an instrument of analysis to understand how religious normativity is incorporated and also gives rise to implicit resistance. I embrace my positionality as an epistemological resource, which allows me to access linguistic and symbolic micro-reformulations that reveal discreet and significant reconfigurations of female religious authority.
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ABOULASSE, Amina
(2025)
"Positionality and reflexive epistemology in the study of women's circles of Quranic exegesis in Casablanca,"
Faits de Langue et Société (FLS): Vol. 11:
Iss.
1, Article 9.
Available at:
https://scholarhub.univh2c.ma/fls/vol11/iss1/9