Yafa Shanneik is Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on agency and authority of women in Shi'i and Sunni Muslim communities in the Middle East and their transnational links to Europe. She was awarded three British Academy grants to examine understandings of gender relations and women's resistance to patriarchal gender norms among Syrian and Iraqi refugees in both the Middle East and Europe.
Preface; Introduction; 1. Trajectories of Shi
is in the Gulf and their presence in Europe; 2. The rites of mourning within Shi
i Islam; 3. Performing the sacred: emotions, the body, and visuality; 4. Aestheticisation of politics: the case of täb
r; 5. Fatima's apparition: power relations within female ritual spaces; 6. The power of the word: the politicisation of language; 7. Conclusion.
