The Art of Resistance in Islam: The Performance of Politics Among Shi'i Women in the Middle East and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9781316516492 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Yafa Shanneik

Opis

Examines different forms of resistance among Muslim women in the Middle East and in the diaspora.

Recenzje

'Shanneik beautifully illustrates how ritual performances are a means of empowerment for Shi'i Muslim women and a form of resistance to religious sectarianism. This groundbreaking book erases traditional area studies boundaries by ambitiously connecting the understudied Arab Gulf to the Shi'i diaspora in Europe through artistic expression and political protest.' Mara Leichtman, Michigan State University

Spis treści

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.