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Volume V: Contents

List of Contributers………………………………………………………………………........ xi
List of Illustrators…………………………………………………………………………....... xv
Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………………….... xvii
Preface (Suad Joseph)……………………………………………………………………....... xix

 

 

Arts: Belly Dancers  
Overview (Karin van Nieuwkerk)…………………………………………………………....... 1

 

Arts: Composers  
Afghanistan (Veronica Doubleday)…………………………………………………………..... 4
The Caucasus (Nigar Akhundova & Aida Huseynova)……………………………………….... 4
Iran (Ann Lucas)…………………………………………………………………………........ 5
The Ottoman Empire (Rajna Klaser-Ledoux)………………………………………………...... 6
South Asia (Amelia Maciszewski)…………………………………………………………....... 8
Turkey (Derya Senol Iner)…………………………………………………………………...... 11

 

Arts: Dance: Expression and Ritual  
Arab States (Wendy Buonaventura)………………………………………………………........ 13

 

Arts: Fiction and Fiction Writers  
Afghanistan (Faridullah Bezhan)……………………………………………………………...... 15
The Caucasus (Shouleh Vatanabadi)…………………………………………………………... 16
Egypt (Mara Naaman)……………………………………………………………………….... 18
Iran (Safoura Nourbakhsh)…………………………………………………………………..... 20
North Africa (Andrea Khalil)………………………………………………………………...... 22
North America (Samia Serageldin)…………………………………………………………...... 24
West Africa: Francophone (Moussa Sow)…………………………………………………....... 26
Turkey (Hulya Adak)………………………………………………………………………...... 28

 

Arts: Film Directors and Film Stars  
Arab States (Viola Shafik)…………………………………………………………….............. 30
Central Asia (Michael Rouland)……………………………………………………………...... 32
Iran (Negin Nabavi)………………………………………………………………………….... 33
Sub-Saharan Africa (Beti Ellerson)…………………………………………………………...... 35
Turkey (Petra de Bruijn)……………………………………………………………………..... 38

 

Arts: Folk Dancers and Folk Singers  
Afghanistan (Veronica Doubleday)…………………………………………………………...... 41
The Caucasus (Laurel Victoria Gray)………………………………………………………...... 42
Central Asia and Iran (Anthony Shay)………………………………………………………..... 45
Eastern Europe (Aida Vidan)………………………………………………………………...... 50
The Gulf and Saudi Arabia (Lisa Urkevich)…………………………………………………..... 52
Morocco (Fatima Chebchoub)……………………………………………………………........ 54
The Ottoman Empire (Arzu Ozturkmen)……………………………………………………...... 56
South Asia (Jennifer C. Post)………………………………………………………………...... 58
Turkey (Arzu Ozturkmen)……………………………………………………………………... 60
West Africa (Esailama G. A. Diouf)………………………………………………………….... 61

 

 

Arts: Performers and Performing Groups  
Azerbaijan (Nigar Akhundova & Aida Huseynova)……………………………………………. 64
Central Asia and Afghanistan (Tanya H. Merchant)…………………………………………..... 65
Egypt and Turkey (including Ottoman) (Stavros Stavrou Karayanni)………………………….... 68
The Gulf and Saudi Arabia (Lisa Urkevich)…………………………………………………..... 71
Iran (Ameneh Youssefzadeh)………………………………………………………………….. 73
South Asia (Jennifer C. Post)………………………………………………………………….. 74

 

Arts: Poets and Poetry  
Afghanistan (Alexandra Scheherezada Jerome)……………………………………………….... 77
Arab States (Clarissa Burt)……………………………………………………………………. 77
Central Asia (Nurten Kilic-Schubel)………………………………………………………….... 80
East Africa: Swahili (Ridder H. Samson)………………………………………………………. 82
Iran: Classical (Firuza Abdullaeva)…………………………………………………………….. 84
Iran: Modern (Heidi Ghomi)…………………………………………………………………… 86
The Ottoman Empire (Kemal Silay)……………………………………………………………. 87
Southeast Europe (Damir Arsenijevic)…………………………………………………………. 89
Turkey (Hande A. Birkalan-Gedik)……………………………………………………………. 91
West Africa (Beverly B. Mack)……………………………………………………………….. 93

 

Arts: Popular Culture  
Afghanistan (Keith A. Leitich)…………………………………………………………………. 96
Central Asia (Michael Rouland)……………………………………………………………….. 97
Indonesia (Barbara Hatley)……………………………………………………………………. 98
North American (Saeed A. Khan)……………………………………………………………... 103
Southeast Asia, East Asia, Australia, and the Pacific (excepting Indonesia) (John Clammer)…….. 105
Tanzania (Siri Lange)………………………………………………………………………….. 108
Turkey (Mutlu Binark)……………………………………………………………………….... 110
West Africa: Hausa (Graham Furniss)…………………………………………………………. 111

Arts: Remembrances and Narrations  
Iran: The Diaspora (Halleh Ghorashi)………………………………………………………….. 113
North Africa (Alexander E. Elinson)………………………………………………………….... 114
Palestine (Randa Farah)………………………………………………………………………. 116
South Africa (Doria Daniels)…………………………………………………………………... 118
South Asia (Ananya Jahanara Kabir)………………………………………………………….. 121
Turkey (Suheyla Saritas)………………………………………………………………………. 122

 

 

Arts: Storytellers and Raconteurs  
Afghanistan (Margaret A. Mills)……………………………………………………………….. 125
Arab States (Nadia Yaqub)…………………………………………………………………… 126
Central Asia (Oidinposha Imamkhodjaeva)……………………………………………………. 127
East Africa (Abreham Alemu Fanta)…………………………………………………………... 128
Iran (Judith L. Goldstein)……………………………………………………………………… 130
Turkey (Suheyla Saritas)………………………………………………………………………. 131
West Africa (Zainab Jerrett)…………………………………………………………………... 132

 

 

Arts: Sung Praise Poetry  
.West Africa (Aissata Sidikou-Morton)………......................................................................... 135

 

Arts: Theater  
.Arab States (Mona N. Mikhail)................................................................................................. 137
Central Asia (Azim Malikov)....................................................................................................... 139
Iran (Farah Yeganeh & Torange Yeghiazarian) ........................................................................... 140
The Ottoman Empire (G. Carole Woodall).................................................................................. 141
South Asia (Kathryn Hansen)...................................................................................................... 143
Southeast Europe (Sabrina Ana Peric)........................................................................................ 145
Sub-Saharan Africa (Jane Plastow)............................................................................................. 147
Turkey (Petra de Bruijn)............................................................................................................. 149
United States (Nathalie Handal).................................................................................................. 150

 

Arts: Visual Arts and Artists  
Central Arab States (Kirsten Scheid).......................................................................................... 153
Egypt (Jessica Winegar)............................................................................................................. 155
Georgia: Tbilisi (Janet Roberts)................................................................................................... 156
Iran (Sharon Parker).................................................................................................................. 158
North Africa (Katarzyna Pieprzak)............................................................................................. 159
The Ottoman Empire (Nancy Micklewright)................................................................................ 160
South Asia (Deborah Hutton)..................................................................................................... 161
Sudan (Baqie Badawi Muhammad)............................................................................................. 164
Turkey (Zeynep Yasa Yaman).................................................................................................... 168
West Africa (Kinsey Katchka).................................................................................................... 170

 

Arts: Women Journalists and Women's Press  
Central Arab States (Magda Abu-Fadil)..................................................................................... 174
The Gulf (Naomi Sakr)............................................................................................................... 176
Iran (Hossein Shahidi)................................................................................................................ 177
South Africa (Gabeba Baderoon)............................................................................................... 178
Iurkey (Isik Ozel)....................................................................................................................... 180
Western Europe (Isabelle Rigoni)............................................................................................... 182
Zanzibar and Tanzania (Salma Maoulidi)..................................................................................... 184

 

Arts: World Music  
Overview (Sarah Weiss)............................................................................................................. 188

 

Islam: Critiques of the Impact of the Emergence of Islam on Women  
Overview (Alfons H. Teipen)...................................................................................................... 196

 

Islam: Early Expansion and Women  
Central Asia and Eurasia (Isenbike Togan).................................................................................. 200
Iran to South Asia (Sarah Ansari)............................................................................................... 204

 

Islam: Islam and Modernities  
Overview (Amina Jamal)............................................................................................................ 209

 

Islam: Jewish and Muslim Sources, Discourses and Interactions  
Overview (Reuven Firestone)..................................................................................................... 216

 

Islam: Saints and Sacred Geographies  
Central Asia (Azim Malikov)...................................................................................................... 223
Mashriq (Michelle Zimney)......................................................................................................... 224
North Africa (Michelle A. Rein).................................................................................................. 225
The Ottoman Empire (Ethel Sara Wolper)................................................................................... 227
South Asia (Kelly Pemberton).................................................................................................... 228
Turkey (Julya Kucuk)................................................................................................................. 230

Language: Use by Women  
The Caucasus (Ingrid Pfluger-Schindlbeck)................................................................................. 233
Iran (Zohreh R. Eslami & Abbass Eslami-Rasekh)...................................................................... 234
North Africa (Deborah Kapchan)............................................................................................... 236
North America: Yemeni American Girls (Loukia K. Sarroub)...................................................... 237
The Ottoman Empire (Zehra Toska)........................................................................................... 240
Turkey (Derya Agis)................................................................................................................... 243
Western Europe (Chantal Tetreault)............................................................................................ 244
Yemen (Ianthe Mary Maclagan)................................................................................................. 247

 

Qur'an: Modern Interpretations  
Arabic and Urdu (Hibba Abugideiri)........................................................................................... 249
Euro-American Languages (Hibba Abugideiri)............................................................................ 252
Perisan (Shahin Gerami & Khadijeh Safiri).................................................................................. 255
South Asian Languages (Marcia Hermansen).............................................................................. 258
Turkish (Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat)............................................................................................. 262

 

Qur'an: Qur'an and Early Tasfir  
Overview (Andrew Rippen)........................................................................................................ 266

 

Religious Practices: Ablution, Purification, Prayer, Fasting and Piety  
Central Asia (Oidinposha Imamkhodjaeva)................................................................................. 269
The Gulf (Lisa Wynn)................................................................................................................. 270
Iran (Ingvild Flaskerud).............................................................................................................. 271
North Africa (Willy Jansen)........................................................................................................ 273
South Asia (Kelly Pemberton).................................................................................................... 274
Southeast Asia (Zulkarnaini Abdullah)......................................................................................... 276
Turkey (Necmettin Gokkir & Hidayet Aydar)............................................................................. 279
West Africa (Liza Debevec)....................................................................................................... 280
Western Europe (Jeanette S. Jouili)............................................................................................. 281

Religious Practices: Conversion  
Arab States (Elizabeth Bishop)................................................................................................... 285
Central Asia (Julia Droeber)....................................................................................................... 286
East Africa (Tabea Scharrer)...................................................................................................... 288
Iran (Kathryn Spellman)............................................................................................................. 290
Mexico: Chiapas (Sandra Canas Cuevas)................................................................................... 292
North America (Marcia Hermansen)........................................................................................... 293
The Ottoman Empire (Tijana Krstic)........................................................................................... 296
South Africa (Rebekah Lee)....................................................................................................... 297
South America (Heba El Attar)................................................................................................... 299
Southeast Asia (Ryoko Nishii).................................................................................................... 301
Western Europe (Karin van Nieuwkerk)..................................................................................... 306

Religious Practices: Obedience and Disobedience in Islamic Discourses  
Overview (Kecia Ali)................................................................................................................. 309

Religious Practices: Piety  
Overview (Marina A. Tolmacheva) 314

Religious Practices: Pilgramage  
Overview (Johan Hendrik Meuleman)......................................................................................... 318
The Caucasus (Ingrid Pfluger Schindlbeck)................................................................................. 324
Central Asia (Azim Malikov)...................................................................................................... 325
North Africa (Michelle A. Rein).................................................................................................. 326
South Asia (Syed Akbar Hyder)................................................................................................. 329
Turkey (Mustafa Karatas).......................................................................................................... 331
West Africa (Eva Evers Rosander)............................................................................................. 332

Religious Practices: Preaching and Women Preachers  
Arab States (excepting North African and the Gulf) (Lara Deeb)................................................. 335
Central Asia (Oidinposha Imamkhodjaeva)................................................................................. 335
Egypt (Margaret Rausch)............................................................................................................ 337
Iran (Sabine Kalinock)............................................................................................................... 339
North Africa (Margaret Rausch)................................................................................................. 340
South Africa (Muhammed Haron)............................................................................................... 341
South Asia (Maimuna Huq)........................................................................................................ 343
Sudan (Souad T. Ali).................................................................................................................. 346
Turkey (Yucel Demirer).............................................................................................................. 347
West Africa (Kari Vogt)............................................................................................................. 349

Religious Practices: Prophecy and Women Prophets  
Overview (Marina A. Tolmacheva)............................................................................................. 351

Religious Practices: Religious Commemorations  
Argentina (Sofia Martos)............................................................................................................ 355
China (Fatima Day) (Elisabeth Alles)........................................................................................... 357
The Gulf and Yemen (Lisa Wynn)............................................................................................... 359
Iran (Sabine Kalinock)............................................................................................................... 360
South Africa (Goolam Vahed).................................................................................................... 361
South Asia (Kelly Pemberton).................................................................................................... 365
Southeast Europe (Zilka Spahik-Siljak)....................................................................................... 367
Turkey (M. Kursad Atalar)......................................................................................................... 370

Religious Practices: Waqf  
Overview (Zeinab A. Abul-Magd).............................................................................................. 372
Arab States (Astrid Meier)......................................................................................................... 376
Indonesia (Dian Masyita)............................................................................................................ 378
Iran (Babak Rahimi)................................................................................................................... 382
The Ottoman Empire (Randi Deguilhem)..................................................................................... 384
South Asia (Claudia Preckel)...................................................................................................... 388

Religious Practices: Zakat (Almsgiving) and Other Charitable Practices  
Overview (Ellison Banks Findly)................................................................................................. 391
The Ottoman Empire (Suraiya Faroqhi)....................................................................................... 393
South Asia (Claudia Preckel)...................................................................................................... 396
Turkey (Servet Bayindir)............................................................................................................ 398

Representations: Afterlife Stories  
Overview (Jane I. Smith)............................................................................................................ 400

Representations: Creation Stories  
Overview (Jane I. Smith)............................................................................................................ 403

Representations: Dream Literature  
Overview (Maria Mavroudi)....................................................................................................... 406

Representations: Erotic Literature  
Arab States (Tarek Shamma)..................................................................................................... 411
Indonesia (Cahyaningrum Dewajati)............................................................................................ 412
Iran (Gita Hashemi & Fataneh Farahani)..................................................................................... 416
Turkey and the Ottoman Empire (Irvin Cemil Schick).................................................................. 417

Representations: Fiction, Modern  
Argentina (Christina E. Civantos)................................................................................................ 421
The Caucasus (Rebecca Gould).................................................................................................. 422
Iran (Farah Yeganeh & Mohammad Fuladi)................................................................................ 423
Southeast Europe (Jelena Petrovic)............................................................................................. 424
Turkey (Jale Parla)..................................................................................................................... 426

Representations: Film  
Arab States (Viola Shafik).......................................................................................................... 429
Central Asia (Michael Rouland).................................................................................................. 431
Iran (Negin Nabavi)................................................................................................................... 433
Sub-Saharan Africa (Frances Harding)....................................................................................... 433
Turkey (Petra de Bruijn)............................................................................................................. 435

Representations: Humorous Depictions  
The Ottoman Empire (Helga Anetshofer).................................................................................... 437
Southeast Europe (Sabrina Ana Peric)........................................................................................ 438

Representations: Legends and Epics  
The Causasus (Anna Oldfield Senarslan)..................................................................................... 440
Central Asia (Nurten Kilic-Schubel)............................................................................................ 440
East Africa (Joseph. L. Mbele)................................................................................................... 442
The Ottoman Empire (Helga Anetshofer).................................................................................... 443
Southeast Asia (Hussain Othman)............................................................................................... 445
Turkey (Suheyla Saritas)............................................................................................................. 449

Representations: Legends, Epics, and Performance  
West Africa (Marloes Janson)..................................................................................................... 450

Representations: Metaphors of the Female Body  
Overview (Negar Mottahedeh)................................................................................................... 453

Representations: Music  
Afghanistan (Veronica Doubleday).............................................................................................. 457
The Caucasus (Anna Oldfield Senarslan)..................................................................................... 458
Iran (Ann Lucas)........................................................................................................................ 458
South Asia (Amelia Maciszewski)............................................................................................... 460
Turkey (Derya Sonal Iner).......................................................................................................... 464

Representations: Representations: Muslim Women and Gender in the Colonial Imagination  
Overview (Lenore Lyons)........................................................................................................... 466

Representations: Poetry, Modern  
Arab States (Lucine Taminian).................................................................................................... 475
Central Asia (Nurten Kilic-Schubel)............................................................................................ 477
East Africa: Swahili (K. Inyani Simala)........................................................................................ 479
Turkey (Mediha Gobenli)........................................................................................................... 481

Representations: Poetry and Prose, Premodern  
Arabic and Persian (Leyla Rouhi)................................................................................................ 484
Southeast Asian Languages (Wazir Jahan Karim)........................................................................ 490
Turkish (Selim Kuru).................................................................................................................. 493
Urdu (and other relevant South Asian languages) (Carla Petievich)............................................... 498

Representations: Print, Broadcast, and Electronic Media  
Iran (Mahsa Shekarloo).............................................................................................................. 503
North Africa (Zahia Smail Salhi)................................................................................................. 504
North America (Sunera Thobani)................................................................................................ 505
South Africa (Gabeba Baderoon)............................................................................................... 508
Southeast Asia (Vissia Ita Yulianto)............................................................................................ 509
Turkey (Meltem Narter)............................................................................................................. 514

Representations: Proverbs, Adages, and Riddles  
Egypt and Sudan (Ismail H. Abdalla).......................................................................................... 517
The Gulf (Kinga Devenyi)........................................................................................................... 520
Iran (Erika Loeffler Friedl).......................................................................................................... 522
North Africa (Aida A. Bamia)..................................................................................................... 523
The Ottoman Empire (Helga Anetshofer).................................................................................... 524
Turkey and the Caucasus (Hande A. Birkalan-Gedik)................................................................. 525
Yemen (Linda Boxberger).......................................................................................................... 527

Representations: Qur'an  
Overview (Brannon Wheeler)..................................................................................................... 529

Representations: Romance Fiction  
Turkey (Asli Yazici Yakin).......................................................................................................... 533

Representations: Sufi Literature  
Overview (Laury Silvers)............................................................................................................ 535

Representations: Sufi Women, Early Period, Seventh-Tenth Centuries  
Overview (Laury Silvers)............................................................................................................ 541

Representations: Theatre  
Arab States (Mona N. Mikhail).................................................................................................. 544
The Ottoman Empire (Petra de Bruijn)........................................................................................ 545

Representations: Visual Arts  
Overview (Iftikhar Dadi)............................................................................................................. 447
Arab States (Kirsten Scheid)...................................................................................................... 449
The Ottoman Empire (Nancy Micklewright)................................................................................ 451
Southeast Europe (Simona Cupic & Lidija Merenik)................................................................... 452

Representations: The Wiles of Women Literature  
Overview (Shalom Goldman)...................................................................................................... 556

Indices to Volume V  
Name Index............................................................................................................................... 561
Subject Index............................................................................................................................. 580


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