ABSTRACT This paper explores the discursive construction of ideal Islamic womanhood and its associated gendered subjectivities in the South Indian state of Kerala. It outlines the articulation of ideal womanhood in and through intra-community debates between the principal Muslim groups (“traditionalists” and “reformists”) in Kerala regarding the status of women in Islam. It traces the making of a discourse on the cultivation of pious modern female subjecthood and situates it in the context of wider socio-political changes among Kerala’s Muslims, such as those wrought by nationwide debates on the prospect of personal law reform since the Shah Bano controversy of the mid-1980s. It shows how the traditionalist and reformist interventions in the field of Muslim women’s education, in particular, have converged in recent times with respect to propagating idealized conceptions of pious modern female subjecthood. In conclusion, the paper contextualizes ideal Islamic womanhood with respect to the making of modern Malayali identities and a dominant gender order that spans religious groups, castes, and communities in Kerala.

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重塑自我：喀拉拉邦理想的伊斯兰女性话语

摘要 本文探讨了印度南部喀拉拉邦理想伊斯兰女性的话语建构及其相关的性别主体性。它概述了在喀拉拉邦主要穆斯林团体（“传统主义者”和“改革主义者”）之间关于伊斯兰教妇女地位的社区内辩论中以及通过社区内辩论表达的理想女性身份。它追溯了关于培养虔诚的现代女性主体的话语的形成，并将其置于喀拉拉邦穆斯林更广泛的社会政治变化的背景下，例如自沙阿巴诺争议以来全国范围内关于属人法改革前景的辩论所引发的变化1980 年代中期。它展示了传统主义和改革主义如何在穆斯林妇女教育领域进行干预，特别是，近来，在传播虔诚的现代女性主体的理想化概念方面已经趋于一致。总之，本文将理想的伊斯兰女性与现代马来人身份的形成和跨越喀拉拉邦宗教团体、种姓和社区的占主导地位的性别秩序联系起来。