عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
LA116439
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
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انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Aesthetics of Muslim-ness:
General Material Designation
[Article]
Other Title Information
Art and the Formation of Muslim Identity Politics
First Statement of Responsibility
Ala Rabiha Alhourani
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The paper explores two opposing yet simultaneous forces of aesthetics as transformative and constitutive force of Muslim identity politics, religiosity and cultural style in Cape Town The ethnography focuses on Muslim artists in Cape Town, namely Thania Petersen and twin brothers Hasan and Husain Essop, whose artworks embody a 'social drama' of a lived experience of Muslims' ongoing individual and collective active engagement with and appropriation of the plurality of competing discourses that are religious and secular, local and global. The discussion unpacks the ways in which the artworks of Petersen and the Essop brothers serve as a transformative force and as a politic of authenticity to Muslim identity, religiosity, and cultural style. The paper offers an appreciative but critical reading of Talal Asad's idea of an anthropology of Islam. Taking into consideration the incommensurable diversity and internal contradiction that could be conceived as Islamic discursive traditions, this paper argues that the aesthetics of Muslimness is what inspires coherence within and across diverse, contradictory Islamic traditions. The paper explores two opposing yet simultaneous forces of aesthetics as transformative and constitutive force of Muslim identity politics, religiosity and cultural style in Cape Town The ethnography focuses on Muslim artists in Cape Town, namely Thania Petersen and twin brothers Hasan and Husain Essop, whose artworks embody a 'social drama' of a lived experience of Muslims' ongoing individual and collective active engagement with and appropriation of the plurality of competing discourses that are religious and secular, local and global. The discussion unpacks the ways in which the artworks of Petersen and the Essop brothers serve as a transformative force and as a politic of authenticity to Muslim identity, religiosity, and cultural style. The paper offers an appreciative but critical reading of Talal Asad's idea of an anthropology of Islam. Taking into consideration the incommensurable diversity and internal contradiction that could be conceived as Islamic discursive traditions, this paper argues that the aesthetics of Muslimness is what inspires coherence within and across diverse, contradictory Islamic traditions.
SET
Date of Publication
2018
Physical description
185-203
Title
Journal of Religion in Africa
Volume Number
48/3
International Standard Serial Number
1570-0666
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
aesthetic
Subject Term
art
Subject Term
authenticity
Subject Term
discursive tradition
Subject Term
identity politics
Subject Term
Islam
Subject Term
Muslim
Subject Term
performance
Subject Term
transformation
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Ala Rabiha Alhourani
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
Call Number
10.1163/15700666-12340142
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Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب p
[Article]
275578
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