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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 183–192.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Sasha A. Khan Abstract An extension of an ongoing haunted queer diasporic kinship practice, this piece consists of letter-poems written to the author’s ancestor, Shauki Masi, who passed away several years ago. In this way, the author offers queer Muslim meditations on the five pillars of Islam...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 466–490.
Published: 01 October 2021
... as a dominatrix and her Muslim identity, questioning the boundaries of these categories. Using queer of color critique and feminist theorizing on BDSM, this essay examines how Muna demands recognition of her Islamic sexuality and perverse Islam, navigating tensions as she disidentifies with these categories...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 298–322.
Published: 01 October 2021
....” Another Shakira law meme inexplicably depicts a donut with a cursive form of writing forming the literal icing on the donut, claiming that “free Islamic donuts” were being distributed to children in order to perpetuate “Shakira law in America” ( fig. 2 ). 1 Figure 1. Meme portraying DJ Khaled...
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in Shari’a Barbie’s Afterlives: Apprehending Racialized and Sexualized Islam through Social Media
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Published: 01 October 2021
Figure 2. A spoof meme about “Islamic donuts” used for propaganda, which was evidently believable to some people.
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 271–290.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... The author argues that Islamophobia should be traced back to colonial modernity, its regimes of othering, and its perception of Islam as Mohammedanism that conceals its nature as a fetishistic, primitive, barbaric, patriarchal, and irrational set of beliefs. To illustrate anti-Muslim racism, the author...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 127–130.
Published: 01 December 2020
... perspectives on the impact of war and fundamentalism on women’s lives in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Other pieces analyze the ways in which racist representations of Muslim women and of Islam have come to play a key part in colonial and neocolonial “great games” being played in South, West, and Central Asia. Yet...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 90–126.
Published: 01 April 2021
... with local Islamic militant groups. This obscures their nuanced testimonies, political objectives, and multivalent agencies within the conflict zone. The author shows how Vishal Bharadwaj’s 2014 film Haider , an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet , disrupts such erasures to highlight Kashmiri women’s lived...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 443–465.
Published: 01 October 2021
... in temporal terms. In addition to these artists, the writings of scholars and artists Jose Estaban Muñoz, Ronak Kapadia, Etel Adnan, and Hamed Sinno further emphasize the future-facing nature of both queerness and Islam, as well as the radical possibilities of telling queer Muslim stories in the future...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 130–152.
Published: 01 March 2009
... into India and Pakistan. I explore the ways in which state-sponsored Islam in Pakistan impacts the protagonist Ayesha and her son Salim. Further, I explore how the violence of Partition as well as continued violence between Hindus and Muslims is remembered cinematically by Bombay cinema, the dominant...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 74–92.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Anaya McMurray Abstract “Black Muslim women and hip-hop? . . . real Muslims don't listen to hip-hop.” For many it is almost unfathomable that black Muslim women would have any involvement with hip-hop music. While several scholars have explored the connections between hip-hop and Islam, hip-hop...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 370–395.
Published: 01 October 2021
... Pakistani feminism Muslim women secularism feminist politics During the course of my ongoing research on women’s struggles in Pakistan I was invited to give a talk at a major Islamic university for women whose stated mission is to promote Islamic knowledge while producing scholars who can...
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 57–82.
Published: 01 March 2005
... intensified in the past two decades as a strategy against oppressive regulation of political and social life in the name oflslamization. Given the present international pressure on Pakistan to crack down on "extremists," we can expect an intensification in accusations of"anti-Islamic" and "Westernized...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 54–77.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Chukwuma Azuonye Copyright © 2006 by Smith College 2006 CHUKWUMA AZUONYE Feminist or SimplyFeminine? ReflectionosntheWorkos f NanaAsma'u, a Nineteenth-CentuWryestAfricanWoman Poet,Intellectuaal,ndSociaAl ctivist Introduction Nana Asma'u, a remarkable West African Islamic woman poet...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 298–301.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Minoo Moallem Copyright © 2002 by Wesleyan University Press 2002 WHOSE FUNDAMENTALISM? MinooMoallem September 26, 2001 In the wake of the horrific events of September nth, "Islamic fundamentalism," a discourse which has been decades in the making, has finally come into its own. Islamic...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 62–90.
Published: 01 March 2013
.... Hence, among their most vehement critics in Pakistan are the ulema (religious scholars) who view AI-Hudateachers as modern, elite women who are unqualified to teach Islam and are undermining their monopoly in KHANUM SHAIKH AL-HUDA INTERNATIONAL 63 the production oflslamic knowledge. I then trace...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 261–270.
Published: 01 October 2021
... discourses are gendered and sexualized and how those who are the targets of anti-Muslim racism articulate their gendered dreams of an alternative lifeworld in the face of their marginalization. Islam has long been the antonym to Europe, the Other of modernity. As Minoo Moallem explores in this issue...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 107–135.
Published: 01 April 2020
... counterterrorism and their affiliated policies. Copyright © 2020 Smith College 2020 2 The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 3 With the exception of Anila Ali and Salam Al-Maryati, the names of our interlocutors have been changed...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 267–296.
Published: 01 October 2023
... recently, the secular, Westernized sections of Turkish society held an elite monopoly over the valued forms of cultural capital and comportment, while the pious Islamic habitus written into the body as men’s facial hair and women’s veil signified otherness and inferiority (Göle 1996 ). Indeed, especially...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 131–138.
Published: 01 December 2020
... to the contemporary crisis that rely on a colonial, Manichean model whereby “advanced capitalist freedom and liberty” is venerated over “backward extremist Islamic barbarism.” Furthermore, we draw upon insights from post-colonial studies and critical political economy to trace the dynamics of European and U.S...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 302–308.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., Manichean model whereby "advanced capitalist freedom and liberty" is venerated over "backward extremist Islamic barbarism." Furthermore, we draw upon insights from post-colonial studies and critical political economy to trace the dynamics of European and U.S. neocolonialism during the Cold War and post-Cold...
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