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In the medieval period; the birth of the Prophet Muhammad (the mawlid) was celebrated in popular narratives and ceremonies that expressed the religious agendas and aspirations of ordinary Muslims; including women. This book examines the Mawlid from its origins to the present day and provides a new insight into how an aspect of everyday Islamic piety has been transformed by modernity. The book gives a window into the religious lives of medieval Muslim women; rather than focusing on the limitations that were placed on them and shows how medieval popular Islam was coherent and meaningful; not just a set of deviations from scholarly norms. Concise in both historical and textual analysis; this book is an important contribution to our understanding of contemporary Muslim devotional practices and will be of great interest to postgraduate students and researchers of Islam; religious studies and medieval studies.