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Ariella Aïsha Azoulay - Jewelers of the Ummah, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Jewelers of the Ummah

A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World

Av Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

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Can we return to worlds destroyed by colonial violence? In a series of letters to her father, her great-grandmothers, and her children-and to thinkers such as Frantz Fanon and Hannah Arendt-Ariella Aïsha Azoulay examines the disruption of Jewish Muslim life in Algeria and broadly in the Maghreb and the Middle East by two colonial projects: French rule and the Zionist colonization of Palestine, which provoked the departure of Jews from these areas. Jewelry making was a profession that marked the Algerian Jews' place in the world they shared in the ummah, the borderless community of Muslims. The objects they crafted continue to unsettle the clear-cut separation of Jews from Muslims and of Jews from Algeria. In this jewelry, and in the history of those who made, wore, and sold it, Azoulay finds a path to reviving the lost wisdom of her ancestors.Emptying Africa of its Jews is a tragedy which Azoulay refuses to accept. In these letters, she reintroduces Muslim Jews to the violence of colonization and traces anticolonial pathways to rebuild the rich world of the jewelers of the ummah.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-09-24
  • Mått: 152 x 234 x 43 mm
  • Vikt: 704 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 656
  • Förlag: Verso Books
  • ISBN: 9781804293119
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Ariella Aïsha Azoulay teaches political thought and visual culture at Brown University. She is the author of a number of books including Civil Imagination [2015] and Potential History [2019].

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A tour de force of formal, conceptual, and historiographical innovation, not to mention ethical creativity. In keeping with Azoulay's signature commitment to transformable and transformative pasts-potential histories, in her terms-this powerful book refuses the partitioning of composite Arab and Jewish identities and shared forms of life in colonized Algeria. Azoulay reopens the foreclosed past by means of a dazzling epistolatory experiment. In letters to ancestors and elected kin (Hannah Arendt, Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter, her own parents, among others), she exercises a right to address, become coeval, and build a world anew with strangers and familiars, those who have gone and who remain. This work is a manifesto of repair in times of unconscionable violence.

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