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Alef Is for Allah: Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies

By Jamal J. Elias

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780520964402
DOI
10.1525/9780520964402
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5733217 bytes)
Pages
304\296
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 18:22:21

Description

Alef Is for Allah is the first groundbreaking study of the emotional space occupied by children in modern Islamic societies. Focusing primarily on visual representations of children from modern Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan, the book examines these materials to investigate concepts such as innocence, cuteness, gender, virtue, and devotion, as well as community, nationhood, violence, and sacrifice. In addition to exploring a subject that has never been studied comparatively before, Alef Is for Allah extends the boundaries of scholarship on emotion, religion, and visual culture and provides unique insight into Islam as it is lived and experienced in the modern world.

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