Art of Resistance in Islam - The Performance of Politics Among Shi i Women in Middle East Beyond

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

List of contents

Preface; 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. Aestheticisation of politics: the case of täb¿r; 5. Fatima's apparition: power relations within female ritual spaces; 6. The power of the word: the politicisation of language; 7. Conclusion.

About the author

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.

Summary

Examining different forms of resistance among Shi'i women in the Middle East and Europe, this book studies the performance of sectarian and gender power relations as expressed in Shi'i ritual practices. It provides a new transnational approach to researching gender agency in contemporary Islamic movements in both the Middle East and Europe.

Additional text

'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

Product details

• Authors: Yafa Shanneik, Yafa (University of Birmingham) Shanneik, Shanneik Yafa
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781316516492
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51649-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Islam, Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Middle East, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Constitution: government & the state, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Constitution: government and the state, Islamic groups: Shi’ah, Shi’ite