Yafa Shanneik (University of Birmingham)

The Art of Resistance in Islam

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining different forms of resistance among Shi'i women in the Middle East and Europe, this book studies the performance of sectarian and gender power relations as expressed in Shi'i ritual practices. It provides a new transnational approach to researching gender agency in contemporary Islamic movements in both the Middle East and Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Middle East Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781009015691
• ISBN-10: 1009015699
• Artikelnr.: 70200769

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.