Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Engaged Surrender 2. A Community of Women: Consensus, Borders, and Resistance Praxis 3. Gender Negotiations and Qur'anic Exegesis: One Community's Reading of Islam and Women 4. Historical Discourses 5. Soul Food: Changing Markers of Identity Through the Transition 6. Conversion 7. Performing Gender: Marriage, Family, and Community 8. Searching for Islamic Purity In and Out of Secular Los Angeles County 9. Conclusion Epilogue Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

About the Author

Carolyn Moxley Rouse is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University.