The group has gained unprecedented popularity among urban Pakistani women, influencing the ways that women practice and participate in religious discourse in everyday life. Al-Huda advances a model of piety that casts women as moralreligious actors anchored in, but not confined to, their domestic roles and invested in building religiously educated families and communities. Created and led by urban, upper-class Pakistani women, Al-Huda approaches religious interpretation and praxis in a way that challenges that of the male ulema religious scholars) who have historically exercised a monopoly over the production and dissemination of religious knowledge in Pakistan. Abstract The focus of this paper is Al-Huda International, a Pakistan-based Sunni Muslim women's organization working to bring about social reform through women's religious education.
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