The Art of Resistance in Islam

The Performance of Politics among Shi'i Women in the Middle East and Beyond

AvYafa Shanneik

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-07-04
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:369 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Middle East Studies
Antal sidor:270
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009015691

Utforska kategorier

Islam inom Filosofi och religion
Konstitution: stat och regering inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

'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

Innehållsförteckning

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.