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Changing Saudi Arabia : art, culture, and society in the Kingdom
Explores the role of Saudi Arabia's arts movement in promoting progressive social reform in the kingdom.
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Islamic Patterns as an Allegory for an F-1 Student’s Experience in the Context of Global Capitalism: The Aesthetics of Cognitive Mapping as an Approach to Art-based Research
Building on Fredric Jameson's critical theory, this dissertation examines how the aesthetics of cognitive mapping were used to uncover overlooked political, economic, social and cultural dimensions behind my artistic engagement with Islamic patterns. Using a critically informed variant of arts-based research (ABR), I explored the complexity of the interconnected economic, social, political and aesthetic realities informing my positionality as a Muslim Saudi female artist/research completing her dissertation in a Western country. Particularly, my work revealed how certain global forces (including capitalist relations between Saudi Arabia and the USA, as well as global postmodern cultural influences) shape the processes of appropriation and re-signification of patterning appropriated from Islamic aesthetics. This research culminated in a body of artwork for a solo exhibition at Paul Voertman’s Gallery at the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas located in Denton, Texas. I conclude the study with recommendations for a regional ABR to be developed by educators for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The study also suggests that this model of cognitive mapping as a critical art making methodology would be a great pedagogical tool for museums and art education curriculum to implement in Saudi Arabia.
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The Religious and Spiritual Life of the Jews of Medina
In The Religious and Spiritual Life of the Jews of Medina Haggai Mazuz offers an account of the halakhic character of the Jewish community of Medina in the seventh century CE. Making use of a unique methodology of comparison between Islamic and Jewish sources, Mazuz convincingly argues that the Jews of Medina were Talmudic-Rabbinic Jews in almost every respect. Their sages believed in using homiletic interpretation of the Scriptures, as did the sages of the Talmud. On many halakhic issues, their observations were identical to those of the Talmudic sages. In addition, they held Rabbinic beliefs, sayings and motifs derived from the Midrashic literature.\"The Religious and Spiritual Life of the Jews of Medina is a wonderful reference work for Talmudic study, Jewish history, and Islamic history. A must-have book for every library.\" - Haim Gottschalk, Association of Jewish Libraries, vol.5, no.3 (2015)\"Mazuz confronts an admirably wide range of Arabic sources, from the Qur?an to prophetic biographies and ?adith compilations as well as legal and theological works. The breadth of the evidence provided to support the conclusion about the religious identity of Medina's Jews is impressive.\" - Harry Munt, University of York, The Review of Rabbinic Judaism, vol.19 (2016)
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Wahhābī Islam Facing the Challenges of Modernity
This book examines Dār al-Iftā, the official Saudi religious establishment for issuing fatwas, between 1971 and 1999. Specifically, it explores the challenges that this scholarly body encountered when applying Wahhābī interpretations of the Shari'a to late twentieth-century modernity.
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Art in Saudi Arabia : a new creative economy?
This text spotlights the role that contemporary art will play in Saudi Arabia's new push for cultural diplomacy as well as sweeping reform in the country. As the Kingdom mobilises its vast resources behind the economic and social priorities of its Vision 2030 strategy and seeks new terms of engagement with the international community, art is set to take centre stage. Rooted in Saudi Arabia's own traditions and contemporary practices, a barrage of planned events, installations, public projects, biennales and museum openings are beginning to draw in many from the international art community.
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Russian Hajj
In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in any language on the hajj under tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials struggled to control and co-opt Russia's mass hajj traffic, seeing it as not only a liability but also an opportunity. To support the hajj as a matter of state surveillance and control was controversial, given the preeminent position of the Orthodox Church. But nor could the hajj be ignored, or banned, due to Russia's policy of toleration of Islam. As a cross-border, migratory phenomenon, the hajj stoked officials' fears of infectious disease, Islamic revolt, and interethnic conflict, but Eileen Kane innovatively argues that it also generated new thinking within the government about the utility of the empire's Muslims and their global networks.
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The relationship between artistic skills and academic engagement among artistically gifted non-specialist university students
This study aimed to investigate the level of artistic skills and academic engagement among artistically gifted non-specialist students at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. It also attempted to identify the relationship between students' artistic skills and academic engagement. The study followed a mixed methods design where both quantitative and qualitative data was collected and analyzed. The participating students (102 students enrolled in the university's Gifted Care Unit) completed an author-developed questionnaire probing their artistic skills (cognitive, performance, and emotional) and academic engagement (vigor, dedication, and absorption). In addition to its 30 Likert scale items, the questionnaire had an open-ended question about ways to promote artistic skills from the perspective of the students. Furthermore, the author electronically interviewed 14 members of the Gifted Care Unit and got them to respond to the same open-ended question in the students' questionnaire, i.e., what are your suggestions for promoting students' artistic skills. The quantitative data analysis via descriptive statistics revealed that the students had high artistic skills and academic engagement. Pearson correlations revealed a significant positive relationship between artistic skills and academic engagement. Standard regression analysis produced a significant model where artistic skills explained 11% of variance in students' academic engagement. Of the individual dimensions of artistic skills, only performance skills explained 13% of students' academic engagement. The analysis of students' and members' responses to the open-ended question revealed some shared themes, e.g., the students' need for more specialized training, contact with professional experiences, support from significant others, and creativity-stimulating competitiveness.. A number of implications are offered.
The important finding in this study is that ASs, especially performance skills, contribute to students' AE. This makes it important for specialized entities like the Gifted Care Unit to exert more efforts to identify artistically gifted students in all university programs. These efforts can identify students who are aware of their artistic skills and students who have artistic skills but are unaware of them. The art culture should be spread all over the university to attract more students to join the Gifted Care Unit. The artistically gifted students should be provided with specialized training, contact with outside sources of artistic experience, an art-nurturing environment, incentives to be more creative, and support, especially spiritual support.
Journal Article
Women’s sports in Saudi Arabia: reality, obstacles and aspirations in light of Vision 2030
This study explores the structural and cultural obstacles facing Saudi women in sport and examines how participation reflects broader patterns of social change under national reform initiatives. Using a mixed-methods design, data were collected from 138 survey respondents and five semi-structured interviews. The findings reveal that while health, fitness and self-fulfillment are key motivators, women encounter economic, institutional, and moral constraints that shape their ability to engage in sport. High membership fees, limited access to enclosed facilities and persistent gendered norms remain critical barriers. Family approval and social perceptions continue to mediate women’s choices, illustrating that participation is not solely an individual act but a social negotiation embedded in moral expectations. The study contributes to understanding how legitimacy, gender and modernization intersect in the Saudi context and calls for policy frameworks that link institutional reform with community-level acceptance to sustain women’s participation in everyday life.
Journal Article