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Sufis and Saints' Bodies

Author : Scott Kugle
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807872776
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Sufis and Saints' Bodies written by Scott Kugle and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Scott Kugle refutes this assertion in the first full study of Islamic mysticism as it relates to the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through the nineteenth century, Kugle demonstrates that literature from this era often treated saints' physical bodies as sites of sacred power. Sufis and Saints' Bodies focuses on six important saints from Sufi communities in North Africa and South Asia. Kugle singles out a specific part of the body to which each saint is frequently associated in religious literature. The saints' bodies, Kugle argues, are treated as symbolic resources for generating religious meaning, communal solidarity, and the experience of sacred power. In each chapter, Kugle also features a particular theoretical problem, drawing methodologically from religious studies, anthropology, studies of gender and sexuality, theology, feminism, and philosophy. Bringing a new perspective to Islamic studies, Kugle shows how an important Islamic tradition integrated myriad understandings of the body in its nurturing role in the material, social, and spiritual realms.

Muhammad's Body

Author : Michael Muhammad Knight
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469658925
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Muhammad's Body written by Michael Muhammad Knight and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muhammad's Body introduces questions of embodiment and materiality to the study of the Prophet Muhammad. Analyzing classical Muslim literary representations of Muhammad's body as they emerge in Sunni hadith and sira from the eighth through the eleventh centuries CE, Michael Muhammad Knight argues that early Muslims' theories and imaginings about Muhammad's body contributed in significant ways to the construction of prophetic masculinity and authority. Knight approaches hadith and sira as important religiocultural and literary phenomena in their own right. In rich detail, he lays out the variety of ways that early believers imagined Muhammad's relationship to beneficent energy—baraka—and to its boundaries, effects, and limits. Drawing on insights from contemporary theory about the body, Knight shows how changing representations of the Prophet's body helped to legitimatize certain types of people or individuals as religious authorities, while marginalizing or delegitimizing others. For some Sunni Muslims, Knight concludes, claims of religious authority today remain connected to ideas about Muhammad's body.

The Political Appropriation of the Muslim Body

Author : Susan S.M. Edwards
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030688968
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Political Appropriation of the Muslim Body written by Susan S.M. Edwards and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon law, politics, sociology, and gender studies, this volume explores the ways in which the Muslim body is stereotyped, interrogated, appropriated and demonized in Western societies and subject to counter-terror legislation and the suspension of human rights. The author examines the intense scrutiny of Muslim women’s dress and appearance, and their experience of hate crimes, as well as how Muslim men’s bodies are emasculated, effeminized and subjected to torture. Chapters explore a range of issues including Western legislation and foreign policy against the ‘Other’, orientalism, Islamophobia, masculinity, the intersection of gender with nationalism and questions about diversity, inclusion, religious freedom, citizenship and identity. This text will be of interest to scholars and students across a range of disciplines, including sociology, gender studies, law, politics, cultural studies, international relations, and human rights.

(Re-)Claiming Bodies Through Fashion and Style

Author : Viola Thimm
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030719413
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book (Re-)Claiming Bodies Through Fashion and Style written by Viola Thimm and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates ways of dressing, style and fashion as gendered and embodied, but equally as “religionized” phenomena, particularly focusing on one significant world religion: Islam. Through their clothing, Muslims negotiate concepts and interpretations of Islam and construct their intersectionally interwoven position in the world. Taking the interlinkages between ‘fashionized religion,’ ‘religionized fashion,’ commercialization and processes of feminization as a starting point, this book reshapes our understanding of gendered forms of religiosity and spirituality through the lens of gender and embodiment. Focusing mainly on the agency and creativity of women as they appropriate ways of performing and interpreting various modalities of Muslim clothing and body practices, the book investigates how these social actors deal with empowering conditions as well as restrictive situations. Foregrounding contemporary scholars’ diverse disciplinary, theoretical and methodological approaches, this book problematizes and complicates the discursive and lived interactions and intersections between gender, fashion, spirituality, religion, class, and ethnicity. It will be relevant to a broad audience of researchers across gender, sociology of religion, Islamic and fashion studies.

Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds

Author : Parin Dossa
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802095518
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds written by Parin Dossa and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds, Parin Dossa explores the lives of Canadian Muslim women who share their stories of social marginalization and disenfranchisement in a disabling world. She shows how these women, who are subjected to social erasure in policy and research, define their identities and claim their humanity using the language of everyday life. Based on narrative ethnography, Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds makes a case for positive acknowledgement of perceived differences of nationality, religion, multiple-abilities, and gendered and race-based identities. It offers a powerful argument for bridging two disparate bodies of work: disability studies and anti-racist feminism. Most significantly, it shows how racialized Muslim women with disabilities are redefining the parameters of their social worlds and developing a distinctively pluralistic understanding of abilities. This ground-breaking work gives presence to the lives of people who are otherwise rendered socially invisible.

Muslim Bodies

Author : Susanne Kurz
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 364312810X
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Muslim Bodies written by Susanne Kurz and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2016 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der Sammelband ist aus einem Panel beim Deutschen Orientalistentag in Marburg 2010 hervorgegangen und beleuchtet aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven Körpererfahrungen, -kulturen, -diskurse und -techniken in islamisch geprägten Kulturen der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Leitgedanke ist dabei die Frage danach, wie Individuen ihr Wissen über Körper/Sexualität im sozialen Feld konstruieren und welche Deutungssysteme (z. B. Islam, graeco-islamische Medizin) dabei wirksam werden. The present volume, product of a conference panel at the German Orientalists' Conference in Marburg 2010, aims at throwing light on the experiences, discourses and body techniques prevailing in Muslim bodily culture. It combines historical with contemporary case studies and explores the individual and collective patterns of knowledge construction related to body and sexuality, in a social field where different and sometimes conflicting knowledge systems (e.g. Islam, Graeco-Islamic Medicine) can be found at work.

The Body in Islamic Culture

Author : Fuʼād Isḥāq Khūrī
Publisher : Saqi Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Body in Islamic Culture written by Fuʼād Isḥāq Khūrī and published by Saqi Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of the body is of special importance in Islamic and Arab societies. Much of the daily interaction between peoples in these societies is related to the strict Islamic division of the universe into different spaces; the "feminine" and "masculine," the "pure" and the "polluted," the "private" and "public." Fuad I. Khuri explores the different meanings and images related to the body in Islam and how these permeate religious practices and social attitudes among people, and the numerous ways the body communicates messages, attitudes and feelings through unspoken language.

Critical Muslim 41

Author : Ziauddin Sardar
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 9781787387164
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Critical Muslim 41 written by Ziauddin Sardar and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our turbulent times, all varieties of bodies face serious dangers. Bodies of water are disappearing before our eyes; bodies politic risk suppression, lying on the razor's edge of the democratic struggle; human bodies fear annihilation at the hands of hate and xenophobic fascism. The biological body is no longer a husk for the intellect, but itself a vital piece of identity. The black body and female body, tethered to historical narratives, have become a cause worth fighting for in the BLM and #MeToo movements. More broadly, posthumanism and changing sexuality and identity politics are challenging our conceptions and limitations with regards to bodies. And the monolithic human body, once seen as divine perfection--a gift from above--is today quickly cast aside for the next, more advanced model. In this issue, we explore the bodily familiar, the celestial bodies, the invisible bodies of metaphors, and those under the microscope--all with the power to start and stop our fragile little world on a whim. As we walk into the future, this issue challenges readers to prepare for a new type of body, fit for a world beyond our present predicaments. About Critical Muslim: A quarterly publication of ideas and issues showcasing groundbreaking thinking on Islam and what it means to be a Muslim in a rapidly changing, interconnected world. Each edition centers on a discrete theme, and contributions include reportage, academic analysis, cultural commentary, photography, poetry, and book reviews.

Being Muslim

Author : Sylvia Chan-Malik
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479850608
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Being Muslim written by Sylvia Chan-Malik and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Four american moslem ladies": early U.S. Muslim women in the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, 1920-1923 -- Insurgent domesticity: race and gender in representations of NOI Muslim women during the Cold War era -- Garments for one another: Islam and marriage in the lives of Betty Shabazz and Dakota Staton -- Chadors, feminists, terror: constructing a U.S. American discourse of the veil -- A third language: Muslim feminism in Smerica -- Conclusion: Soul Flower Farm

Sufi Bodies

Author : Shahzad Bashir
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231144911
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Sufi Bodies written by Shahzad Bashir and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bashir weaves a rich history of Sufi Islam around the depiction of bodily actions in Sufi literature and miniature paintings produced circa 1300-1500 CE. Focusing on the Persianate societies of Iran and Central Asia, he explores medieval Sufis' conception of the human body as the primary shuttle between interior (batin) and exterior (zahir) realities with particular attention to three arenas: religious activity in the form of rituals, rules of etiquette, asceticism, and a universal hierarchy of saints; the deep imprint of Persian poetic paradigms on the articulation of love, desire, and gender; and the reputation of Sufi masters for working miracles, which empowered them in all domains of social activity. Bashir ultimately offers a new methodology for extracting historical information from religious narratives"--Cover p. [4].

Religion, Politics and Gender in Indonesia

Author : Sonja van Wichelen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136963863
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Politics and Gender in Indonesia written by Sonja van Wichelen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political downfall of the Suharto administration in 1998 marked the end of the "New Order" in Indonesia, a period characterized by 32 years of authoritarian rule. It opened the way for democracy, but also for the proliferation of political Islam, which the New Order had discouraged or banned. Many of the issues raised by Muslim groups concerned matters pertaining to gender and the body. They triggered heated debates about women’s rights, female political participation, sexuality, pornography, veiling, and polygamy. The author argues that public debates on Islam and Gender in contemporary Indonesia only partially concern religion, and more often refer to shifting moral conceptions of the masculine and feminine body in its intersection with new class dynamics, national identity, and global consumerism. By approaching the contentious debates from a cultural sociological perspective, the book links the theoretical domains of body politics, the mediated public sphere, and citizenship. Placing the issue of gender and Islam in the context of Indonesia, the biggest Muslim-majority country in the world, this book is an important contribution to the existing literature on the topic. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of anthropology, sociology, and gender studies.

Only Muslim

Author : Naomi Davidson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801465257
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Only Muslim written by Naomi Davidson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French state has long had a troubled relationship with its diverse Muslim populations. In Only Muslim, Naomi Davidson traces this turbulence to the 1920s and 1930s, when North Africans first immigrated to French cities in significant numbers. Drawing on police reports, architectural blueprints, posters, propaganda films, and documentation from metropolitan and colonial officials as well as anticolonial nationalists, she reveals the ways in which French politicians and social scientists created a distinctly French vision of Islam that would inform public policy and political attitudes toward Muslims for the rest of the century—Islam français. French Muslims were cast into a permanent "otherness" that functioned in the same way as racial difference. This notion that one was only and forever Muslim was attributed to all immigrants from North Africa, though in time "Muslim" came to function as a synonym for Algerian, despite the diversity of the North and West African population.Davidson grounds her narrative in the history of the Mosquée de Paris, which was inaugurated in 1926 and epitomized the concept of Islam français. Built in official gratitude to the tens of thousands of Muslim subjects of France who fought and were killed in World War I, the site also provided the state with a means to regulate Muslim life throughout the metropole beginning during the interwar period. Later chapters turn to the consequences of the state's essentialized view of Muslims in the Vichy years and during the Algerian War. Davidson concludes with current debates over plans to build a Muslim cultural institute in the middle of a Parisian immigrant neighborhood, showing how Islam remains today a marker of an unassimilable difference.

Who is the Main body of The Ummah: Muslim Demographics

Author : Sayyid Rami al Rifai
Publisher : Sunnah Muakada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who is the Main body of The Ummah: Muslim Demographics written by Sayyid Rami al Rifai and published by Sunnah Muakada. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prophet established in many narration’s that we should stick to the main body of the Muslim community (Ummah), it's largest group. He (saws) said, “My community will not come together on misguidance”...”You have to follow the congregation for verily Allah will not make the largest group of Muhammad’s community agree on error.”... “Whoever among you wants to be in the middle of Paradise, let him cling to the congregation.”... “Shaytan is a wolf like the wolf that preys on sheep, taking the isolated and the stray among them; therefore, avoid factionalism and keep to the congregation and the collective and the masjid.”... “Allah’s hand is over the group, and whoever dissents from them departs to hell.”... “Allah’s hand is over the group, follow the largest group, for verily whoever dissents from them departs to hell”. This work looks into the demographics of the muslim world to find out who the main body of the muslim community is, and then discusses this significance to the times we are living in as they are mentioned in the ahadith regarding the signs of the hour. Visit the forum and blog @ http://SunnahMuakadah.com/

(Re-)Claiming Bodies Through Fashion and Style

Author : Viola Thimm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783030719425
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book (Re-)Claiming Bodies Through Fashion and Style written by Viola Thimm and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like the wide array of practices these essays examine, this book invites readers to consider the diversity of settings and meanings that fall under the broad umbrella of Muslim sartorial style. We are introduced to the intimate yet high-stakes decisions ranging from headcover to nail polish, from Mauritania to Turkey to Indonesia. In so doing, we are reminded of the centrality of two important facts. First, that all forms of dress and the techniques of their use are always formed in dense familial, national, and transnational contexts. Second, that this variety still intersects with a fundamental fact: these styles dress and address the body. By refocusing on the body, this volume allows interdisciplinary perspectives to productively cross-fertilize the field of modest dress." Carla Jones, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA This book investigates ways of dressing, style and fashion as gendered and embodied, but equally as "religionized" phenomena, particularly focusing on one significant world religion: Islam. Through their clothing, Muslims negotiate concepts and interpretations of Islam and construct their intersectionally interwoven position in the world. Taking the interlinkages between 'fashionized religion,' 'religionized fashion,' commercialization and processes of feminization as a starting point, this book reshapes our understanding of gendered forms of religiosity and spirituality through the lens of gender and embodiment. Focusing mainly on the agency and creativity of women as they appropriate ways of performing and interpreting various modalities of Muslim clothing and body practices, the book investigates how these social actors deal with empowering conditions as well as restrictive situations. Foregrounding contemporary scholars' diverse disciplinary, theoretical and methodological approaches, this book problematizes and complicates the discursive and lived interactions and intersections between gender, fashion, spirituality, religion, class, and ethnicity. It will be relevant to a broad audience of researchers across gender, sociology of religion, Islamic and fashion studies. Viola Thimm is Professorial Candidate (Habilitandin) at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Heidelberg (Germany). A cultural anthropologist, her research interests include cultural practices of mobility, gender relations and intersectionality, and Islam and its socio-cultural entanglements.

Medicines of the Soul

Author : Fedwa Malti-Douglas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520924673
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Medicines of the Soul written by Fedwa Malti-Douglas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Medicines of the Soul, the autobiographical writings of three leading women in today's Islamic revival movement reveal dramatic stories of religious transformation. As interpreted by Fedwa Malti-Douglas, the autobiographies provide a powerful, groundbreaking portrayal of gender, religion, and discourses of the body in Arabo-Islamic culture. At the center of each story is a lively female Islamic spirituality that questions secular hierarchies while reaffirming patriarchal ones.

Islam Is a Foreign Country

Author : Zareena Grewal
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479800562
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Islam Is a Foreign Country written by Zareena Grewal and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the question: what does it mean to be Muslim and American? In Islam Is a Foreign Country, Zareena Grewal explores some of the most pressing debates about and among American Muslims: what does it mean to be Muslim and American? Who has the authority to speak for Islam and to lead the stunningly diverse population of American Muslims? Do their ties to the larger Muslim world undermine their efforts to make Islam an American religion? Offering rich insights into these questions and more, Grewal follows the journeys of American Muslim youth who travel in global, underground Islamic networks. Devoutly religious and often politically disaffected, these young men and women are in search of a home for themselves and their tradition. Through their stories, Grewal captures the multiple directions of the global flows of people, practices, and ideas that connect U.S. mosques to the Muslim world. By examining the tension between American Muslims’ ambivalence toward the American mainstream and their desire to enter it, Grewal puts contemporary debates about Islam in the context of a long history of American racial and religious exclusions. Probing the competing obligations of American Muslims to the nation and to the umma (the global community of Muslim believers), Islam is a Foreign Country investigates the meaning of American citizenship and the place of Islam in a global age.

Power, Marginality, and the Body in Medieval Islam

Author : Fedwa Malti-Douglas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100055774X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Power, Marginality, and the Body in Medieval Islam written by Fedwa Malti-Douglas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From rulers to uninvited guests, from women to thieves, from dreams to names, from blindness to torture - in a series of ground-breaking studies, Power, Marginality, and the Body in Medieval Islam explores the multi-layered and complex textual universe of medieval Islam. The power of the ruler sits alongside the power of the trickster, as games of detection and verbal erudition are displayed for the edification of the reader. Humour is not lacking either as male and female characters indulge in various forms of wit that redefine and recast the sacred. For much of this world, the body reigns supreme: not only in illness and miracle cures but in displays of transgression and torture. Covering the range of literature from sacred text to history, biography and anecdote, this book provides a stimulating analysis of the world of medieval Islamic mentalités.