Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East
Subtitle: Second Edition
Contributors: Donna Lee Bowen (Editor); Evelyn A. Early (Editor)
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: November 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780253340108
Subjects: Middle East - History; North Africa - History; History; History - General History; Sociology; Islam - General; Islamic countries; Islamic studies; Social & cultural anthropology; Africa - General; Middle East - General; Africa, North; Middle East; Social life and customs
First sentence: The problems of transliteration terms for this book vividly demonstrate the diversity found in the Middle East.
Table of contents: title: Generations and life passages.  Traditional songs from Boir Ahmad : Collected and translated by Erika Friedl -- Growing up in Morocco / Susan Schaefer Davis -- Explosion : Emily Nasrallah -- “Of the dust and the wind”: arranged marriage in Afghanistan / Margaret A. Mills -- Two weddings / Jenny B. White -- Editing al-Fajr : a Palestinian newspaper in Jerusalem / Bishara Bahbah -- The son’s return / Driss Chraibi -- The funeral / Driss Chraibi -- Gender relations. Young women’s sexuality in Tunisia : The health consequences of misinformation among university students / Angel Foster -- A thorny side of marriage in Iran / Erika Friedl -- Harasiis marriage, divorce, and companionship / Dawn Chatty -- Oil, fertility, and women’s status in Oman / Christine Eickelman -- Tamkin : stories from a family court in Iran / Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- The veiled revolution / Elizabeth W. Fernea -- Home, community, and work.  The doum tree of Wad Hamid / Tayeb salih -- Abortion and the ethics of life / Donna Lee Bowen -- Fashioning Casablanca in the beauty salon / Susan Ossman -- Chalk and dust : teachers’ lives in rural Sudan / W. Stephen Howard -- Networks, jobs, and everyday life in Cairo / Diane Singerman -- Politics, politics, and more politics : youth life experiences in the Gaza strip / Brian K. Barber -- Islamist activism in Jordan / Quintan Wiktorowicz -- Popular expression of religion. Inside the Islamic reformation / Dale F. Eickelman -- The sound of the divine in daily life / Kristina Nelson -- Abu Illya and Zakat / Donna Lee Bowen -- An American woman on the hajj / Michael E. Jansen -- Abdul Qadar and the sheep of ld al-Adha / Donna Lee Bowen -- Muslim women and shrines in Shiraz / Anne H. Betteridge -- Islamic teaching among Sunni women in Syria / Annabelle Böttcher -- Internet Islam : new media of the Islamic reformation / Jon W. Anderson -- Performance and entertainment. Syrian television drama : permitted political discourse / Evelyn A. Early -- The riddle of Ramadan : media, consumer culture, and the “Christmasization” of a Muslim holiday / Walter Armbrust -- Moroccan filmmaking : a long voyage through the straits of paradox / Kevin Dwyer -- Al-aris (the bridegroom) : prison literature and human rights / Salah el-Quadie (Translated and introduced by Susan Slyomovics) -- “To Mount at-Tiyal he declared”: some poetry from the Yemeni civil war / Steven C. Caton -- Sad songs of the western desert / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Glossary.