The Space of the Transnational

<p><b>Challenges and reimagines transnational feminism by analyzing the concept of </b><b><i>ummah</i></b><b> or community in Muslim women's writing.</b></p><p>This book examines Muslim women's creative strategies of deploying religious concepts such as <i>ummah</i> or community to solve problems of domestic and communal violence polygamous abuse sterility and heteronormativity. By closely reading and examining examples of ummah-building strategies in interfaith dialogues exchanges and encounters between Muslim and non-Muslim women in a selection of African and Southeast Asian fictions and essays this book highlights women's assertive activisms to redefine transnationalism understood as relationships across national boundaries as transgeography. <i>Ummah</i>-building strategies shift the space of or respatialize transnational relationships focusing on connections between communities groups and affiliations within the same nation. Such a respatialization also enables a more equitable and inclusive remediation of the citizenship of gendered and religious citizens to the nation-state and the transnational sphere of relationships.</p>