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Islamic homosexualities : culture, history, and literature
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ISBN: 0814774679 0814774687 Year: 1997 Publisher: New York London New York University Press


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Islam and popular culture
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ISBN: 1477308881 1477308873 9781477308875 9781477309049 1477309047 147730889X Year: 2016 Publisher: Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press,

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Popular culture serves as a fresh and revealing window on contemporary developments in the Muslim world because it is a site where many important and controversial issues are explored and debated. Aesthetic expression has become intertwined with politics and religion due to the uprisings of the "Arab Spring," while, at the same time, Islamist authorities are showing increasingly accommodating and populist attitudes toward popular culture. Not simply a "westernizing" or "secularizing" force, as some have asserted, popular culture now plays a growing role in defining what it means to be Muslim. With well-structured chapters that explain key concepts clearly, Islam and Popular Culture addresses new trends and developments that merge popular arts and Islam. Its eighteen case studies by eminent scholars cover a wide range of topics, such as lifestyle, dress, revolutionary street theater, graffiti, popular music, poetry, television drama, visual culture, and dance throughout the Muslim world from Indonesia, Africa, and the Middle East to Europe. The first comprehensive overview of this important subject, Islam and Popular Culture offers essential new ways of understanding the diverse religious discourses and pious ethics expressed in popular art productions, the cultural politics of states and movements, and the global flows of popular culture in the Muslim world.


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Muslim rap, halal soaps, and revolutionary theater : artistic developments in the Muslim world
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ISBN: 9780292747685 0292747683 Year: 2012 Publisher: Austin, Texas University of Texas Press

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