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Abstract
Shi‘is have experienced a long history of persecution and oppression across the Middle East. However, not much public and academic attention has been paid to the roles women play in sectarian resistance. This book examines different forms of resistance among Shi‘i women to state as well as communal and gender power structures. It provides a new approach in researching gender agency within contemporary Islamic movements expressed through language, ritual practices, art, drama, posters and banners. It particularly examines the aesthetic performance of the political on the female body through ritual practices – an aspect so far ignored in studies on women’s acts of resistance. These aesthetic formations are dynamic, performative and transnational. Shi‘i diasporic communities in Europe – in London in particular – play a central role in shaping women’s acts of transnational resistance. This book reverts centre-periphery dynamics in Middle Eastern Studies by illustrating how Shiʿa diasporas shape political and sectarian discourses in the Middle East.
Original language | English |
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Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Number of pages | 288 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781009030335 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781316516492 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2022 |
Publication series
Name | Cambridge Middle East Studies |
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Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Keywords
- Resistance
- Performance
- Rituals
- Shia Islam
- Women
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