Introduction : Islamic authority and the study of female religious leaders / Hilary Kalmbach - Sources of authority : female Ahong and Qingzhen Nusi (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 quranic circles to the internet : gender segregation and the rise of female preachers in Saudi Arabia / Amelie Le Renard - The life of two mujtahidahs : female religious authority in twentieth-century Iran / Mirjam Kunkler and Roja Fazaeli - The Qubaysiyyat : the growth of an international muslim women's revivalist movement from Syria (1960-2008) / Sarah Islam - 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 Fatimah : new means of legitimizing female authority in contemporary Shifi discourse / Matthew Pierce - 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 Tafsir : 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 - Female leadership in mosques : an evolving narrative / Masooda Bano