Partners of Zaynab
Title | Partners of Zaynab PDF eBook |
Author | Diane D’Souza |
Publisher | Univ of South Carolina Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2014-09-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1611173787 |
How do pious Shia Muslim women nurture and sustain their religious lives? How do their experiences and beliefs differ from or overlap with those of men? What do gender-based religious roles and interactions reveal about the Shia Muslim faith? In Partners of Zaynab, Diane D'Souza presents a rich ethnography of urban Shia women in India, exploring women's devotional lives through the lens of religious narrative, sacred space, ritual performance, leadership, and iconic symbols. Religious scholars have tended to devalue women's religious expressions, confining them to the periphery of a male-centered ritual world. This viewpoint often assumes that women's ritual behaviors are the unsophisticated product of limited education and experience and even a less developed female nature. By illuminating vibrant female narratives within Shia religious teachings, the fascinating history of a shrine led by women, the contemporary lives of dynamic female preachers, and women's popular prayers and rituals of petition, Partners of Zaynab demonstrates that the religious lives of women are not a flawed approximation of male-defined norms and behaviors, but a vigorous, authentic affirmation of faith within the religious mainstream. D'Souza questions the distinction between normative and popular religious behavior, arguing that such a categorization not only isolates and devalues female ritual expressions, but also weakens our understanding of religion as a whole. Partners of Zaynab offers a compelling glimpse of Muslim faith and practice and a more complete understanding of the interplay of gender within Shia Islam.
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Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 321 |
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ISBN | 0197755836 |
Women and the Family in the Middle East
Title | Women and the Family in the Middle East PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Warnock Fernea |
Publisher | Austin : University of Texas Press |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Social Science |
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An old culture investigated from a new perspective of Feminism in relation to the traditional values of Islam. -- Amazon.com.
Twelve Infallible Men
Title | Twelve Infallible Men PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Pierce |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2016-06-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674737075 |
A millennium ago, Baghdad was the capital of one of history’s greatest civilizations. A new Islamic era was under way. Yet despite the profound cultural achievements, many Muslims felt their society had gone astray. Shiˀa Muslims challenged the dominant narrative of Islamic success with stories of loss. Faithful Muslims have long debated whether Sunni caliphs or Shiˀa imams were the true heirs of the Prophet Muhammad. More influential has been the way Muslim communities remembered those disputes through stories that influenced how to think and feel about them, Matthew Pierce argues. Twelve Infallible Men focuses on the role of narratives of the imams in the development of a distinct Shiˀa identity. During the tenth century, at a critical juncture in Islamic history, a group of scholars began assembling definitive works containing accounts of the twelve imams’ lives. These collective biographies constructed a sacred history, portraying the imams as strong, beautiful, learned, and pious. Miracles surrounded their birth, and they became miracle workers in turn, but were nevertheless betrayed and martyred by enemies. These biographies inspired and entertained, but more importantly they offered a meaningful narrative of history for Muslims who revered the imams. The accounts invoked shared memories and shaped communal responses and ritual practices of grieving. Mourning the imams’ tragic fates helped nascent Shiˀa communities resist the pressure to forget their story. The biographies of the imams became a focal point of cultural memory, inspiring Shiˀa religious imagination for centuries to come.
Property of Ms. Zaynab
Title | Property of Ms. Zaynab PDF eBook |
Author | Vera Carlisle |
Publisher | Pink Flamingo Media |
Pages | 51 |
Release | 2022-09-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1959117017 |
In a moment of delicate intimacy, Shaunna Renton confesses to her husband Michael’s business associate, Ms. Zaynab, that he has been unfaithful to her. While the two women have grown close while they’ve been living in London, Shaunna is shocked by the woman’s immediate response. “Men can be dogs. Sometimes it is best to let them see your anger at their behaviour. Only then can they be trained to know their place… if I were in your shoes, I would start to regard him as a canine in need of training. Until just the mere thought of disobeying you fetches fear to his heart!” The betrayed Shaunna is shocked but nonetheless intrigued by the suggestion. Husband Michael will soon travel to the Middleeast in anticipation of overseeing Ms. Zaynab’s huge development in the region, but there is something far more sinister afoot. He may think he’ll be handling her development, however, it’s Ms. Zaynab who fully intends to oversee him…for life!
The Art of Resistance in Islam
Title | The Art of Resistance in Islam PDF eBook |
Author | Yafa Shanneik |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2022-01-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316516490 |
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.
Return to Ruin
Title | Return to Ruin PDF eBook |
Author | Zainab Saleh |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2020-10-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1503614123 |
This volume of exiles’ accounts “[uses] the stories as springboards to discussing Iraqi history, politicization, and diasporic experiences in depth” (International Journal of Middle East Studies). With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin tells the human story of this exile in the context of decades of U.S. imperial interests in Iraq—from the U.S. backing of the 1963 Ba’th coup and support of Saddam Hussein’s regime in the 1980s, to the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 invasion and occupation. Zainab Saleh shares the experiences of Iraqis she met over fourteen years of fieldwork in Iraqi London—offering stories from an aging communist nostalgic for the streets she marched since childhood, a devout Shi’i dreaming of holy cities and family graves, and newly uprooted immigrants with fresh memories of loss, as well as her own. Focusing on debates among Iraqi exiles about what it means to be an Iraqi after years of displacement, Saleh weaves a narrative that draws attention to a once-dominant, vibrant Iraqi cultural landscape and social and political shifts among the diaspora after decades of authoritarianism, war, and occupation in Iraq. Through it all, this book illuminates how Iraqis continue to fashion a sense of belonging and imagine a future, built on the shards of these shattered memories.