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160381
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In the face of the huge expansion in the number of women preachers throughout the Muslim world and beyond it, the paper proposes the need to theorise female ethical leadership – the subtle detour that Muslim women have been making to claim rights, including the right to leadership, within Islam, through their extraordinary acts of ascetic self-discipline (askesis). Building on Saba Mahmood’s Politics of Piety, the paper draws further on Foucault’s theory of the ethical subject, particularly in Volume III of The History of Sexuality, to demonstrate that it is women’s everyday asceticism coupled with their scholarly hermeneutical knowledge that is enabling these women to breach the citadel of male Islamic scholarship and leadership. In effect, they are foregoing certain personal freedoms in order to gain power and influence in religious spheres previously closed to them. In this their movement resembles feminist movements in Judaism and Christianity.
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140441
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Cosmopolitan cities have been envisioned as colourful, aesthetically creative places at the centre of trade routes and empires, imaged in their bazaars and cafes, where spices and exotic objects are traded or avante-garde artistic and literary expatriates congregate. In the twenty-first-century world of accelerated migrations, cosmopolitan cities are made visible in the proliferation of ethnic restaurants and festivals. But despite their cultural heterogeneity, cosmopolitanism in cities remains a fragile achievement. Such cities have the potential, it seems, to erupt into violence or, on the contrary, to display an intercultural creativity that transects and transcends social divisions. Building on Humphries and Skvirskaja’s work on ‘post-cosmopolitan’ cities, the present paper compares Eastern Mediterranean cities historically famous for their cosmopolitanism like Istanbul and Thessalonika, contemporary post-Communist cities like Sarajevo or Odessa and twenty-first-century global cities like Cairo or London to ask: what makes these cities both cosmopolitan and anti-cosmopolitan?
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048322
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London, Routledge, 1998.
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x, 243p.
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9780415150996
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Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 041486 | 294.4/WER 041486 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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