Hamidah Khanom had never felt any particular interest in traditional Islamic learning. Yet there she and about 40 other young Muslims sat, drinking tea and chatting in a makeshift classroom as they awaited the first session of a weekly course on tafsir, or Quranic exegesis.
"I feel like people ask me questions about religion, and when I don't necessarily have the answers then it's a bit embarrassing," said Khanom, who recently graduated and started her first full-time job. "So I figured I want to have that knowledge for myself."
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