The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture
Ebook
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture illustrates how Muslims participate in a broad spectrum of activities. Moving beyond a framework that emphasizes ritual, legal, historical, or theological issues, this book speaks to how Muslims live in the world, in relation to their religion and the realities of the world around them.
The international team of contributors provide in-depth analysis that chronicles Islamic cultural products in regional and transnational contexts, explores dominant and emerging theories about popularization, and offers provocations in the field of religion and popular culture. The handbook is structured in six parts: spaces; appetites; performances; readings; visions; and communities.
The book explores a variety of Muslim societies and communities within the last 100 years, ranging from the Islamic presence in Latin American architecture to Muslim Anglophone hip-hop, and Muslims in modern Indian theatre.
Offers current and innovative approaches to Muslim popular culture through a wide range of examples from around the world.
Provides an analysis of the many and varied forms Islam takes in the current cultures of societies around the globe
The case studies cover a wide range of Muslim societies as well as several genres of culture, performance and lifestyle
Written by an international team of scholars from the USA, UK, Canada, Europe, Middle East, Australia, Malaysia and South America
The method, theories and issues section includes sensitive coverage of issues of race, gender, and sexuality
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List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “The Orientations of Muslim Popular Culture”, Hussein Rashid (independent scholar, USA) and Kristian Petersen (Old Dominion University, USA)
Part I: Spaces
1. Islamic Presence in Latin American Architecture. Three Periods - Three Ways, Fernando Luis Martinez Nespral, (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2. Impact of Shiah Government on Public Spaces' Morphology of Tehran after the Islamic Revolution, Narciss Sohrabi (Paris Nanterre University, France)
3. Sights and Sites of Translocal Islam: Chinese-style Mosques in Malaysia and Indonesia, Wai Weng Hew (National University of Malaysia, Malaysia)
4. Eidgah: Multifunctional Open Architecture as a Shared Space for Memory and Emotion, Shaista Anwar (independent architectural historian, India)
5. Image and Object in Islam: On the Ka'bah and Its Popular Representations, Ann Shafer (Rhode Island School of Design, USA)
6. This is Home Now! 'Migrating' Mosques as Symbols of Territorial Identity in the Modern Australian Suburban Landscape, Majdi Faleh (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
Part II: Appetites
7. Shi'i Muslim Food Practices in Contemporary Iran: Transformation, Blessing, and Citizenship, Rose Wellman (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)
8. Muslim Butchers, Ethical practice and Sensory Politics: The Changing Economy of Meat in Mumbai, Shaheed Tayob (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
9. Muslim Foodways and Pop Culture: Beyond halal, Boundary Maintenance, and SAME-Cuisine, Rachel Brown (University of Victoria, Canada) and Aldea Mulhern (Fresno State University, USA)
Part III: Performances
10. Rai, World Music, and Islam, Ted Swedenburg (University of Arkansas, USA)
11. Desert Rhythms and Islamic Girl Groups: Making Modern Music for the Muslim Masses in 1970s Southeast Asia, Bart Barendregt (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
12. The Poetics of Resistance in Muslim Anglophone Hip Hop: A Reading of Omar Offendum as a Representative Voice, Naglaa Hassan (Fayoum University, Egypt)
13. What is a Muslim Comedian? Muslim Comedians and Racialization in the United States, David Feltmate (Auburn University at Montgomery, USA)
14. Representation, Identity, and Community: Muslims in Modern Indian Theatre, Jaclyn Michael (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA)
15. Muslims and Cricket, Ali Khan (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)
Part IV: Readings
16. Sisters, Skanks, and Jezebels: American Muslim Fiction and The Other Woman, Layla AbdullahPoulous (SUNY Empire State College, USA)
17. Towards a Global History of Islamicate Science Fiction, Rebecca Hankins (Texas A&M University, USA) and Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad (University of Washington, USA)
18. Counter-Images?: The Cultural Transfer of the Caricature into Modern Egyptian Culture, Keren Zdafee (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Part V: Visions
19. Indigeneity and Identity Transmission: Amazigh Cultural Expression through Film, Yahya Laayouni (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA) and Habiba Boumlik (LaGuardia Community College, USA)
20. Kannywood: An Embattled Hausa Film Industry in 'Muslim Northern' Nigeria, Muhsin Ibrahim (University of Cologne, Germany)
21. Malaysia's Popular Malay-Muslim TV Fiction and Fan Narratives, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus (Islamic Science University of Malaysia, Malaysia), Ruzy Suliza Hashim (National University of Malaysia, Malaysia), and Raihanah M. M (National University of Malaysia, Malaysia)
22. Islamic Geometric Design in Popular Culture, Eric Broug (Independent Scholar, UK)
23. Radical Hope in Cultural Subversion: Muslim Women Artists on Space and Identity, June-Ann Greeley (Sacred Heart University, USA)
Part VI: Communities
24. Consuming Sufism: Rumi and the Marking of a Cultural Icon, Shobhana Xavier (Queen's University, Canada)
25. Materializing Islam: Fashion Advertisements and the Production of the “Muslim Woman”, Kayla Wheeler (Xavier University, USA)
26. The Prophet Muhammad's Sandalprint: Muslim Retro-Cool and the Product-Placed Sermon in Contemporary Turkey, Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan, USA)
27. Muslim Preachers and Mass Media, Jacquelene Brinton (University of Kansas, USA)
Index
Delving into the vibrant realm of food, arts, games, music, comedy, film, television, graffiti, and more, this handbook unravels the rich tapestry of Muslim expressions through popular culture. The collection of essays challenges the idea of a monolithic Muslim tradition. Through its multidisciplinary approach, the book not only deepens our understanding of Muslim practices, but also pushes the boundaries of popular culture and religion. Accessible, engaging, and enlightening, this book offers invaluable insights into cultural production and consumption.
This book has shifted the goals of cultural studies from their evolutionary statis to a revolutionary fervor in which popular culture is interrogated not only in diverse Muslim cultures, but also in many forms and meanings. It truly puts the studies of Muslim popular culture on a new terrain in its varied approaches. It is a welcome, and certainly fresh, addition to the field.
- Title: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture
- Authors: Hussein Rashid, Kristian Petersen
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781350145412, 9781350145399, 1350145394, 1350145416
- Resource ID: LLS:9781350145412
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-09T04:54:44Z
Hussein Rashid Hussein Rashid is Assistant Dean of Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School, USA. He is co-editor of No Normal: Ms. Marvel's America (2020) and a section editor of Bloomsbury Religion in North America The Basics: Islam.
Kristian Petersen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies at Old Dominion University, USA. He is author of Interpreting Islam in China (2018) and is currently working on The Cinematic Lives of Muslims project.