TY  - BOOK
AU  - Katz, Marion Holmes.
TI  - Prayer in Islamic thought and practice
SN  - 978-0-521-71629-1
U1  - 297.3822 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge, England.
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Prayer - Islam - Rugăciunea - Islamul - Молитва - Ислам.
N2  - Canonical prayer (ṣalat) and supplication (duʻa'): development and rules
Ṣalat: conditions and components
Supplication: duʻa'
Valid prayer and ideal prayer
Intent (nīya)
Reverence (khushu') and concentration (ḥuḍūr al-qalb)
The cultivation of emotion
Ethical transformation
Interpretive models: what is ṣalat, and what does it do?
The model of the royal audience
Prayer as communication
Ṣalat as an exercise in self-discipline
Ṣalat as a reflection of the cosmos
Modern developments
The community at prayer: congregational prayer, prayer leadership (imama), and the boundaries of the religious community
Friday prayers
Leadership in prayer (imama)
Prayer behind a leader of another legal school
Knowledge of prayer and its distribution in the community
Failure to pray
Women and prayer
Women's prayer leadership (imama) and placement within the congregation
Women's mosque access
Knowledge and mastery of prayer
ER  -