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Sherin Khankan on female empowerment

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Sherin Khankan
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Inside Scandinavia's First Women-Only Mosque

The Danish capital Copenhagen is home to Scandinavia's first mosque run entirely by and for women. The Mariam mosque is headed by the feminist Sherin Khankan. Only women can be imams and take part in the Friday prayers.

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Sherin Khankan
2017
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Women Are the Future of Islam

In this revelatory book, imam Sherin Khankan addresses urgent contemporary issues such as modern women in Islam, radical Islamic groups, Islamic divorce, and fundamentalism, and she describes her own personal journey as a female Muslim activist.

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Sherin Khankan
2020
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Female Imams in Copenhagen | DW English

Sherin Khankan is the daughter of a Christian and a Muslim. In 2016 she founded a mosque in central Copenhagen. She wants to challenge the view of Islam as a religion that hates non-believers and combat Islamophobia.

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Sherin Khankan
2017
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Denmark’s Feminist Mosque Founder Challenges Norms

Scandinavia’s first female-led house of Islamic worship, where Friday prayers are for women only, is riling conservatives.

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Soren Billing
2016
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Exclusive Interview with Sherin Khankan on Denmark’s First Female Run Mosque

Medyascope.tv produces this interview with Sherin Khankan.

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Sherin Khankan
2017
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Denmark’s Muslim Feminism and the First Woman Imam at Copenhagen’s Mariam Mosque

When an ostensibly secular state tests its Muslim citizens by skirting the edge of insult, the result is deeper division and alienation on both sides: the racist right vs. the anti-West Islamists.

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Nancy Graham Holm
2019
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