Get Yours Today! On the Production and Consumption of the Televised Fatwā
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Joud Al Korani
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Toronto (Canada)
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
101
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Text of Note
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-26724-1
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
M.A.
Discipline of degree
Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
Body granting the degree
University of Toronto (Canada)
Text preceding or following the note
2015
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
This thesis explores Yastaft?nak, a program aired on Al-Resalah, an Arabic-language Islamic satellite television channel, as a prime example of the fatw a show genre. Scrutinizing Yastaftnak from different theoretical angles, I enquire into how such fatwa programs operate, why they are made and watched, and what repercussions their increasing popularity has for Muslim worlds. Considering the utilization of fatw as as a tool of societal discipline, I examine simultaneously how such discipline is embodied and performed. These subjects feed into larger arguments concerning the role of television programs in the commodification of fatwas and concurrent establishment of an "intimate public sphere." Throughout this, I probe into the ways a seemingly uniquely Islamic knowledge produced in the form of an unending stream of fatw a is given the impression of being objective, and contest this view, teasing the social, political, and economic out of what is presented as solely legal or religious.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Religion; Islamic Studies; Middle Eastern Studies
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Commodification;Fatwa;Islam;Knowledge;Media;Public sphere