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British Muslim women in the cultural and creative industries
Muslim women are opening up new educational and career pathways across the UK, pioneering roles in digital media, fashion design and visual art. However, their contributions to the economy and culture are rarely the focus of media and government reports. Now, Saskia Warren draws on in-depth fieldwork with British Muslim women working in these roles, taking a narrative approach to look at how they frame their own everyday labour experiences. Drawing on interviews, focus groups, activity diaries, and online digital and visual analysis, Warren explores how Muslim womanhood is variously celebrated, contested, resisted and subverted. From negotiating family expectations to encountering prejudice from education providers and employers, and from founding businesses to finding ways to respect religion in their creative work, these personal insights bring the struggles and successes of British Muslim women creatives to life.
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Women and the Fatimids in the World of Islam
This first full-length study of women and the Fatimids is a groundbreaking work investigating an unexplored area in the field of Islamic and medieval studies.The authors have unearthed a wealth of references to women, thus re-inscribing their role in the history of one of the most fascinating Islamic dynasties, the only one to be named after a woman. At last some light is thrown on the erstwhile silent and shadowy figures of women under the Fatimids which gives them a presence in the history of women in medieval and pre-modern dynasties.Basing their research on a variety of sources from historical works to chronicles, official correspondence, documentary sources and archaeological findings, the authors have provided a richly informative analysis of the status and influence of women in this period. Their contribution is explored first within the context of Isma‘ili and Fatimid genealogical history, and then within the courts in their roles as mothers, courtesans, wives and daughters, and as workers and servants. Throughout the book comparison is drawn with the status and roles of women in earlier, contemporary and subsequent Islamic as well as non-Islamic courts.
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Hear us speak : letters from Arab women
\"If Arab women were given a voice, what story would they tell? To be a woman is a gift. But that gift does not come without challenges. Historically, women around the globe have fought to be heard. The stories of Arab women in particular have often been veiled in mystery. In Hear Us Speak, Suzy Kanoo lifts the veil. As a CEO, Suzy has enjoyed great success as an Arab businessperson; as a woman, she has witnessed firsthand how Arab legislation and culture has not always kept pace with a world that continues to evolve. By curating letters from a wide array of women, and one good man, Suzy reveals story after story of courageous, resilient human beings who flourish in the face of impossible odds. The letters in this book are inspiring, shocking, empowering, harrowing -- and a thousand shades between. When read together, they paint a rich portrait of what life is like for Arab women today. These are wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters. They are businesspeople, entrepreneurs, citizens, and refugees. They have seen and done remarkable things, been bruised, and emerged stronger for it. Hear Us Speak is a book by and for women, a chorus of voices that will forever change the way you see the world.\"--Publisher's description.
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Veiled Figures
Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, public debates about Islam and the veil have become increasingly divisive. Yet few acknowledge that this fascination with veiling goes back more than three centuries.
In Veiled Figures , Teresa Heffernan explores how the clash of civilizations is perpetuated by the rhetoric of veiling and unveiling. Drawing on travel narratives, harem literature, and other stories, Heffernan argues that women’s bodies have been used to exacerbate the divide between religion and reason in the eighteenth century, the Islamic umma and the Western nation in the nineteenth, and Islamism and global capitalism in the contemporary period.
Through the study of the writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Bowman Dodd, Demetra Vaka Brown, Zeyneb Hanoum, and others, Heffernan’s book demonstrates the ways in which these works complicate and interrupt these divides, opening up new opportunities for a more constructive dialogue between East and West.
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Wrapping authority : women Islamic leaders in a Sufi movement in Dakar, Senegal
\"Since around 2000, a growing number of women in Dakar, Senegal have come to act openly as spiritual leaders for both men and women. As urban youth turn to the Fayٍda Tijهaniyya Sufi Islamic movement in search of direction and community, these women provide guidance in practicing Islam and cultivating mystical knowledge of God. While women Islamic leaders may appear radical in a context where women have rarely exercised Islamic authority, they have provoked surprisingly little controversy. Wrapping Authority tells these women's stories and explores how they have developed ways of leading that feel natural to themselves and those around them. Addressing the dominant perceptions of Islam as a conservative practise, with stringent regulations for women in particular, Joseph Hill reveals how women integrate values typically associated with pious Muslim women into their leadership. These female leaders present spiritual guidance as a form of nurturing motherhood; they turn acts of devotional cooking into a basis of religious authority and prestige; they connect shyness, concealing clothing, and other forms of feminine \"self-wrapping\" to exemplary piety, hidden knowledge, and charismatic mystique. Yet like Sufi mystical discourse, their self-presentations are profoundly ambiguous, insisting simultaneously on gender distinctions and on the transcendence of gender through mystical unity with God.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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La madina olvidada
Historia y memoria son dos conceptos que nacen de una misma preocupación y comparten el mismo objeto, la elaboración del pasado. Mientras que la historia adopta necesariamente la forma de un registro, continuamente reescrito y reevaluado a la luz de nuevas evidencias, la memoria puede asociarse a unos propósitos públicos no intelectuales relacionados directamente con la génesis de las identidades colectivas a través de manifestaciones mnemónicas de un pasado inevitablemente parcial y selectivo. Actualmente el pasado islámico de Madrid queda diluido en el espacio público; las grandes transformaciones urbanas experimentadas por la ciudad desde el siglo XVI casi eliminaron por completo las trazas materiales de la ciudad islámica.
El ocaso del islam madrileño coincidió con las fabulaciones míticas sobre los orígenes de la villa de Madrid, sede de la corte en 1561, unos orígenes más acordes con los valores oficiales de la Monarquía Hispánica y más tarde con el Estado-Nación español integrándose en el paradigma de “pérdida y reconquista” en los discursos del siglo XIX. Los orígenes islámicos de Madrid han sido objeto de una larga controversia que continúa hasta hoy y que expresa hasta qué punto la herencia de al-Andalus no ha sido bien digerida por el imaginario nacional español.
Historia y memoria son los dos ejes sobre los que se articula esta obra, explorando transversalmente desde diferentes disciplinas, Historia Medieval y Moderna, Arqueología, Estudios Árabes e Islámicos, Turismo y Gestión y Administración Pública, el estado de los conocimientos sobre la presencia islámica en Madrid y su región desde la época andalusí en la que se funda la ciudad, hasta la Edad Moderna cuando los viajeros europeos señalaban las peculiaridades de la misma. Se propicia al mismo tiempo, una reflexión de carácter diacrónico sobre los lugares de memoria del Madrid islámico y la gestión del patrimonio material e inmaterial que deriva de esta presencia histórica contribuyendo de este modo a la difusión del patrimonio andalusí, mudéjar y morisco en la historia madrileña, tratando de desactivar las proyecciones ideológicas en el conocimiento del pasado. [Texto de la editorial]
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Huda F cares?
This summer's exercise in Fahmy family sisterly bonding involves a trip to Disney World--which seems like it is headed for disaster when Huda gets into a fight with a boy making fun of her hijab.
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Canadian Islamic Schools
Based on eighteen months of fieldwork and interviews with forty-nine participants,Canadian Islamic Schoolsprovides significant insight into the role and function that Islamic schools have in Diasporic, Canadian, educational, and gender-related contexts.
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Laughing all the way to the mosque
A humorous account of growing up in a traditionally Muslim household in Canada.
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Muslim Women and Power
Winner of the W.J.M.Mackenzie Book Prize 2017 This book provides an account of Muslim women's political and civic engagement in Britain and France.It examines their interaction with civil society and state institutions to provide an understanding of their development as political actors.
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