عنوان

Aesthetics of Muslim-ness:

شماره

LA116439

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Aesthetics of Muslim-ness:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Art and the Formation of Muslim Identity Politics

نام نخستين پديدآور

Ala Rabiha Alhourani

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

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.

تاريخ نشر

2018

توصيف ظاهري

185-203

عنوان

Journal of Religion in Africa

شماره جلد

48/3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-0666

اصطلاح موضوعی

aesthetic

اصطلاح موضوعی

art

اصطلاح موضوعی

authenticity

اصطلاح موضوعی

discursive tradition

اصطلاح موضوعی

identity politics

اصطلاح موضوعی

Islam

اصطلاح موضوعی

Muslim

اصطلاح موضوعی

performance

اصطلاح موضوعی

transformation

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ala Rabiha Alhourani

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15700666-12340142

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y