<![CDATA[Men and women are different, but this should not make a reason for discrimination in providing space for self- actualization, including in matters of dakwah. So that was happening in the gait of women in a Muslimah center (MC) Pesantren Daarut Tauhiid (DT) Bandung. This study explains why women in the MC community could get up in boarding school DT helped to empower women through missionary activities and how the patterns of empowerment is done. The research also elaborates the pesantren- based feminist movement. Interpretative phenomenological approach to research and interpret the cultural phenomenon that is found in the female community in the MC. The findings were: (1) The presence of MC in boarding DT has given color and pattern in the sociology of urban schools that have provided public space for Muslim women to actualize themselves through propaganda and womenâs empowerment, (2) The rise of the womenâs movement which was institutionalized in the MC could not be separated from key figure of Aa Gym that originally gave a special role to his wife, Teh Ninih and santriwati (Islamic women students) to participate in the pursuit of social propaganda to women who have penetrated the patriarchal culture, (3) the pattern of movement on problem based Islamic preaching especially on strengthening the economic family. In women community of MC has sought to empower the people with their own perspective or borrow Vandana-Shifa referred to the womenâs way of knowing (1997).
Keywords: Dakwah culture, Muslimah Center, Women empowerment]]>
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