Amina Wadud has engaged in a lifelong struggle for equal participation of believers regardless of their gender. Because of these and other developments it is to be expected that the current framing of debates around female imams and the participation of women in the production and dissemination of Islamic knowledge will have long-term effects. While in a rather typical way for German Universities women make up the majority of students and can be found among the academic staff as well as in the secretariats all of professorial chairs that who had been appointed by the end of 2011 happened to be male. The dominant understanding among actors (Muslim and non-Muslim), who portray female imams as an impossibility in Islam, seems to support the marginalization of Muslim women in the course of the establishment of Islamic chairs at German universities which are currently established and conceptualized as the basis for an education for imams from and for Germany. The 2005-prayer led by Amina Wadud, because of its emblematic and media compatible message, is used in a paradoxical way as a symbol of the backwardness of Islam in public debates.
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