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The Art of Resistance in Islam
The Performance of Politics among Shi'i Women in the Middle East and Beyond
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eBook - PDF
The Art of Resistance in Islam
The Performance of Politics among Shi'i Women in the Middle East and Beyond
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Note on Transliteration
- 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 Aestheticization of Politics: The Case of Ta?bir
- 5 Fatima's Apparition: Power Relations within Female Ritual Spaces
- 6 The Power of the Word: The Politicization of Language
- 7 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Blank Page
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