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The Art of Resistance in Islam: The Performance of Politics among Shi'i Women in the Middle East and Beyond: Cambridge Middle East Studies, cartea 65

Autor Yafa Shanneik
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 ian 2022
Based on first-hand ethnographic insights into Shi'i religious groups in the Middle East and Europe , this book examines women's resistance to state as well as communal and gender power structures. It offers a new transnational approach to understanding gender agency within contemporary Islamic movements expressed through language, ritual practices, dramatic performances , posters and banners. By looking at the aesthetic performance of the political on the female body through Shi'i ritual practices – an aspect that has previously been ignored in studies on women's acts of resistance -, Yafa Shanneik shows how women play a central role in redefining sectarian and gender power relations both in the Middle East and in the European diaspora.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781316516492
ISBN-10: 1316516490
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 158 x 230 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Middle East Studies

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface; Introduction; 1. Trajectories of Shiʿis in the Gulf and their presence in Europe; 2. The rites of mourning within Shiʿi Islam; 3. Performing the sacred: emotions, the body, and visuality; 4. Aestheticisation of politics: the case of taṭbīr; 5. Fatima's apparition: power relations within female ritual spaces; 6. The power of the word: the politicisation of language; 7. Conclusion.

Recenzii

'Shanneik presents a well-researched multi-sited ethnographic study that brings together local and transnational trajectories in the lives of Twelvers Shia women who follow ayatollah al-Shirazi. The study offers an original approach to research on women and resistance by theorizing social agency through the examination of ritual performance and material culture.' Ingvild Flaskerud, University of Oslo
'This exceptional study explores a movement among contemporary Shi'a women who have begun to incorporate bodily practices previously reserved for men within Shi'a mourning rituals (e.g. self-flagellation, walking on coals). With great subtlety and insight. Shanneik analyzes these emergent ritual forms as theo-political practice, a response both to growing sectarian (anti-Shi'a) violence and to the patriarchal constraints of Shi'a traditionalism.' Charles Hirschkind, University of California, Berkeley
'Shanneik beautifully illustrates how ritual performances are a means of empowerment for Shi'i Muslim women and a form of resistance to religious sectarianism. This groundbreaking book erases traditional area studies boundaries by ambitiously connecting the understudied Arab Gulf to the Shi'i diaspora in Europe through artistic expression and political protest.' Mara Leichtman, Michigan State University

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Descriere

Examines different forms of resistance among Muslim women in the Middle East and in the diaspora.