Scholars of Faith is relevant to the Pakistani readership for more than one reason. The trend of acquiring in-depth Islamic education – using both a traditionalist and classical methodology and a contemporary, modern approach – has increased among South Asian women particularly since the latter part of the 20th Century, whether these are women living in the urban or peri-urban areas of their own countries or are part of the Diaspora now settled in the West.
In the book in question, the author focused on the emergence of Muslim girls and women in the sphere of Islamic learning. The author, Usha Sanyal, is an independent scholar and academic based in the USA, whose prior research has focused on the history of the Barelvi or Ahle Sunnat Wa Jamaat movement in British India. The book’s first edition was published by the Oxford University Press in India in October 2020. Bound in hardcover, the book is spread over some 400 plus pages.
This is the small niche where the book Scholars of Faith – South Asian Muslim Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge finds itself. This is especially true of books about contemporary female scholars of Islam. Those written about women Muslim scholars of Islam are rarer.
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