Mosque da’iyat organize summer programming to reach girls beyond regular attendees

Evidence

In June 1995 the daciyat at the Nafi mosque had organized lessons for young women between the ages of fi teen and twenty..two during their summer vacations fr school. These lessons were part of a “summer package” the daciyat had organized for the girls, a program that also included activities such as visits to important Islamic architectural sites and museums, and Quranic recitation and memorization contests. Many of the participants were the daughters of women who attended the Nafi a mosque regularly; others were girls who lived in the neighborhood but who did not have any particular at.. tachment to the mosque. The daciyat believed that since young women were more susceptible to the fads and fashions of Egyptian urban life, they were most in need of instruction in Islamic modes of conduct (al. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 694