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Islam and the Veiling of Women in the Arab World

Islam and the Veiling of Women in the Arab World

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Product Code:
1722-01
ISBN
978-619-152-817-2
SKU
09.0100
Year
04-04-2016
Pages
352
Size
140/215 мм
Weight
0.65 kg
Cover Type
Paperback
Genre
Middle East, Arab World, Islam, History of the Islamic World, Researches, Way of Life & Spirituality, Culturology, Sociology

Galina Evstatieva

Galina Evstatieva

Galina Evstatieva holds a Ph.D. in Arabic Literature from Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, where she is currently an Associate Professor of Arab Culture and Islamic Art at the Department of Arabic and Semitic Studies. She taught various disciplines related to the study of society, culture and art in the Arab world. She has held the lecture course "Islamic Art" at the National Academy of Arts…

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This book is neither an ethnographic study of veiling among various groups of women in the Arab world, nor does it aim at “defending” or “rejecting” the legitimacy of female veiling as practiced among Muslims. Rather, the main objective of the current monograph is to delineate the transformations of female veiling and its perception as religious and social practice among Muslims during the last century against the backdrop of the prevailing conceptualizations in academic scholarship and intellectual discourses. Pursuing that task, the book re-reads relevant foundational sources of Islamic normativity and foregrounds key exemplars from the modern Arab world to analyze and (re-)conceptualize the connection between contemporary practices and classical religious and social regulations.

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