ISBN:
978-025-301-466-5
,
978-0-253-01472-6/eBook
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 481 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
3. ed.
Series Statement:
Indiana Series in Middle East Studies
Keywords:
Mittlerer Osten Nordafrika
;
Islamische Staaten
;
Soziales Leben
;
Muslime
;
Kultur und Gesellschaft
;
Islam
;
Alltag
;
Soziale Beziehung
;
Familie
;
Beziehungen zwischen den Generationen
;
Übergangsritual
;
Gemeinschaft
;
Kulturanthropologie
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Popular Culture
;
Religion
Abstract:
Focusing on the experience of ordinary men, women, and children from Iran and Afghanistan in the east to Morocco in the west, this anthology vividly conveys a 'grassroots' sense of Middle East culture and society today. The anthology locates Islam as a major influence in everyday life; however, it also demonstrates that other factors such as work patterns and community and gender relations are of great importance in shaping individuals' lives, beliefs, and hopes. Including essays, short stories, poetry, and photographs by Middle Eastern and Western scholars and writers with extensive first-hand experience, this interdisciplinary volume is organized around five themes: generations and life passages; gender relations; home, community, and work; popular expression of religion; and performance and entertainment. A sampling of the thirty-four selections includes "Traditional Songs from Boir Ahmad", "Growing Up in Morocco", "Arranged Marriage in Afghanistan", "Women and Sex", "The Veiled Revolution", "Rites of Hospitality and Aesthetics", "Editing al-Fajr: A Palestinian Newspaper in Jerusalem", "Suqs of the Middle East", "Selections from the Quran", "Girl on the Hajj", "Entertainment in the Marketplace", and "A Folk Revival in Morocco". A long-awaited and much-needed resource for courses in multicultural, Third World, and Middle Eastern studies.
Description / Table of Contents:
1, Generations and life passages. Traditional songs from Boir Ahmad / E. Friedl; Growing up in Morocco / S. Schaefer Davis; Children and war / L. Berdal; Memoirs of a street tough / Yusuf Abu Haggag, E.K. Rowson; "Of the dust and the wind": arranged marriage in Afghanistan / Margaret A. Mills; The son's return / D. Chraibi; The funeral / D. Chraibi; 2, Gender relations. Women and sex / Nawal El Saadawi, D.L. Bowen; Dilemmas of adolescence: courtship, sex and marriage in a Moroccon town / Douglas A. & S. Schaefer Davis; Pragmatic morality: Islam and family planning in Morocco / D.L. Bowen; Fertility and fate: medical practices among Baladi women of Cairo / E.A. Early; Personal status law in Sudan / C. Fluehr-Lobban; The veiled revolution / E.W. Fernea; 3, Home, community and work. Rituals of hospitality and aesthetics / A.S. Kanafani; The doum tree of Wad Hamid / Tayeb Salih; The Nasiriyya brotherhood of southern Morocco / J.A. Miller, D.L. Bowen; Lying, honor and contradiction / M. Gilsenan; Editing al-Fajr: a Palestinian newspaper in Jerusalem / Bishara Bahbah; Hajj Nejm's cures and tales / Abdel-Salam Al Ujaili, E.A. Early; Islam and Hajj Brahim's world / J. Waterbury; Suqs of the Middle East / R. Fernea; 4, Popular expression of religion. Selections from the Qurun / J.E. Campo; The sound of the divine in daily life / K. Nelson; Abu Illya and Zakat / D.L. Bowen; An American woman on the Hajj / M.E. Jansen; Sayyida Zainab / Muhammad Fahmi Abdal-Wahab, E.A. Early; New Year's day at Ali's shrine / R.L. Canfield; Women and shrines in Shiraz / A.H. Betteridge; 5, Performance and entertainment. The two-edged sword / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot; Darid Laham / E.A. Early; "To mount at-Tiyal he declared": some poetry from the Yemeni civil war / S.C. Caton; Entertainment in the marketplace / P.D. Schuyler; Sad songs of the western desert / Lila Abu-Lughod; A folk revival in Morocco / P.D. Schuyler
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