Mapping Muslim Moral Provinces: Framing Feminized Piety of Pakistani Diaspora

Over the last two decades we have seen a proliferation in number of self-proclaimed Islamic scholars preaching piety to Muslim women. An emerging few these gaining prominence happen be women, feminizing what is predominantly patriarchal domain dawah (missionary work) and proselytization. Traditionally speaking, missionaries never been restricted particular moral province, perhaps due fact that Islam was intended as hierarchical religion with mosque–state divide. This makes mapping spaces hyper-globalized world—one which shared identities ideologies transcend territorial boundaries—all more challenging. Using firebrand female tele preacher, Dr. Farhat Hashmi, her global proselytizing mission (Al-Huda International) springboard for discussion, this paper seeks map out ways modern women post-9/11 British Pakistani diaspora navigate provinces. By juxtaposing staunchly orthodox impositions niqab-clad revolt from within spaces, practicing, ‘middle-path’ Muslims, critically engages Saba Mahmood’s concept ‘politics piety’ its various critiques. In so doing, reimagine well moralization versus multivocality debate surrounding them, importance positioning agency complex lived realities occupying at center our analysis on