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1032618515 rar This book presents a multi-voice narrative of the history and significance of current contestations over the increasing prominence of expressive piety in Hui Muslim womens mosques in central China. By drawing on a Song Book of chants, collected from the tradition of womens mosques, as context it reveals just how the increasing prominence of female voices has given rise to considerable misgivings among senior religious leaders over the potential destabilization of orthodox Islamic gendered practices. Providing a historical introduction to the place and function of Islamic chants, jingge and zansheng, the book gives a conceptual framing of female silence, sound, and agency in local translations of Confucian and Islamic precepts, and womens personal accounts of the role played by traditional and modern soundscapes in transmitting and celebrating Islamic knowledge and faith. Read more