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

  • Format: 304 pages
  • Pub. Date: 06-Apr-2018
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9780520964402
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  • Format: 304 pages
  • Pub. Date: 06-Apr-2018
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9780520964402
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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. 
List of Illustrations
ix
Preface on Transliteration and Conventions xiii
Acknowledgments xv
1 Of Children, Objects, and Seeing: An Introduction
1(27)
2 Emotion and Its Affects
28(33)
3 Bringing Up Baby: The Construction of Childhood
61(15)
4 Good Muslims Do Their Homework
76(25)
5 Cuteness and Childhood in Turkey
101(37)
6 The Poster Children of Pakistan
138(30)
7 Toy Guns and the Real Dead in Iran
168(38)
8 Of Children, Adults, and Tomorrow: A Conclusion
206(5)
Notes 211(38)
Bibliography 249(24)
Index 273
Jamal J. Elias is Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies and South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous publications on a broad range of subjects relevant to the medieval and modern Islamic world.
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