![]() Stansfield 2 Egypt in the Twenty-First Century Challenges for development Edited by M. Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studiesġ Iraqi Kurdistan Political development and emergent democracy Gareth R. ![]() Dr Salhi has recently completed with Distinction an AHRC/ESRC funded research project, ‘Performance, Politics and Piety: Music as Debate in the Muslim World’. He is the founding director of the Leeds Centre for Francophone Studies (1997–2003) which has developed into the Centre for French and Francophone Cultural Studies. He is the founder and editor of two academic journals, Performing Islam and the International Journal of Francophone Studies. Kamal Salhi is Reader in Francophone, Postcolonial and North African Studies at the University of Leeds and Deputy Director of the Leeds Centre for African Studies, UK. Through a wide range of case studies from West Asia, South Asia and North Africa and their diasporas – including studies of Sufi chanting in Egypt and Morocco, dance in Afghanistan, and ‘Muslim punk’ online – the book demonstrates how Islam should not be conceived of as being monolithic or monocultural, how there is a large disagreement within Islam as to how music and performance should be approached, such disagreements being closely related to debates about orthodoxy, secularism, and moderate and fundamental Islam, and how important cultural activities have been, and continue to be, for the formation of Muslim identity. In contrast to many books on Islam that focus on political rhetoric and activism, this book explores Islam’s extraordinarily rich cultural and artistic diversity, showing how sound, music and bodily performance offer a window onto the subtleties and humanity of Islamic religious experience. Introduction: the paradigm of performing Islam beyond the political rhetoricĢ Social forces shaping the heterodoxy of Sufi performance in contemporary Egyptģ Singing dissent: Sufi chant as a vehicle for alternative perspectivesĤ Debating piety and performing arts in the public sphere: the ‘caravan’ of veiled actresses in Egyptĥ Wah wah! Meida meida! The changing roles of dance in Afghan societyĦ The manifest and the hidden: agency and loss in Muslim performance traditions of South and West Asiaħ ‘Muslim punk’ music online: piety and protest in the digital ageĨ Devotion or pleasure? Music and meaning in the celluloid performances of qawwali in South Asia and the diasporaĩ Multicultural harmony? Pakistani Muslims and music in Bradfordġ0 Hip-hop bismillah: subcultural worship of Allah in Western Europeġ1 Lil Maaz’s Mange du kebab: challenging clichés or serving up an immigrant stereotype for mass consumption online? ![]() Music, Culture and Identity in the Muslim World
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