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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Muslimness"”.
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Arabic: The language of Muslimness in Cape Town
… spiritual/religious ideologies about Muslimness. The group of Arabic learners who are at the centre of the research spend hours vocalising Arabic sounds when reciting Quran, performing prayers, and reading religious texts. In other words, their daily religious practices, which form …
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Fashion, performance and the politics of belonging among Muslim women in Cape Town
… women are using hijab fashion to perform their ?Muslimness? in order to claim a positive and legitimate spot in the ?rainbow nation? as Muslims as a religious-cultural category, and not as ?Malays?, an ethnic category, while simultaneously claiming their belonging to the global umma (Muslim …
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Locating a Black Planning Tradition and Spatializing Black Nationalism
… tactics and provides histories of Blackness, Muslimness, and planning practice as they intersect.
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Salvation in Times of Survival: The Singular Voice of a Crypto-Muslim Scholar in Sixteenth Century Spain
… thing they were asked to deny and reject—their ‘Muslimness’.
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White Muslim convert in the UK : beyond integration paradigm and the politics of “the other”
… to explore how the interplay of "whiteness" and "Muslimness" in contributes to gradual decline while simultaneously sustaining the racial hierarchy. Furthermore, the main argument of this study is that, while white converts challenge the common binaries between Islam and whiteness by embodying …
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Aspiring Muslims in Russia: Form-of-Life and Political Ecoonomy of Virtue in Povolzhye's Halal Movement
… concerns and disputes about the meaning of Muslimness and the place of Muslims in Russian society. Scripturalist virtue-ethics projects have been underrepresented within the expanding body of anthropological literature concerning Islam in the former USSR, and particularly in the Russian …
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Turkey’s State-Business Relations Revisited: Islamic Business Associations and Policymaking in the AKP era
… is exaggerated to the extent that their Muslimness became a red herring, diverting the attention of spectators and analysts from the real problem with Turkey’s democratization and marketization process: the failures in the practice and implementation of the essential legal/institutional …
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Besieged Life: Subjecting Liberal Muslim Women in the War on Terror
… women in my study report self-regulating their Muslimness by conforming to secular and normative models of femininity, citizenship, and religiosity. My study allows me to offer a conception of a figure that I am calling besieged life. Besieged life is a biopolitical subject that faces death on …
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Becoming mixed: mixed marriages of Bosnia-Herzegovina during the life and death of Yugoslavia
… of the more profound transformation of Bosnian Muslimness from a purely religious to a more secular, national, identity. Chapter 3 puts to rest the widely accepted notion that the Yugoslav Communists actively encouraged mixed marriage as a trope for a Yugoslav identity. It argues that mixed …