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Scheherazade At Ground Zero: Muslim Women’S Agency, Identity, And Space In Euro-America From The 1893 World’S Columbian Exposition To The Islamic State, Alexandra M. Brandon
Scheherazade At Ground Zero: Muslim Women’S Agency, Identity, And Space In Euro-America From The 1893 World’S Columbian Exposition To The Islamic State, Alexandra M. Brandon
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This dissertation examines three periods in Euro-American history that appear disparate but reflect the West’s changing relationship with the Islamic World and with Muslims, in particular with Muslim women, in Muslim-majority countries, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Specifically, this dissertation examines how Muslim women’s agency in the United States evolved from the erotic, provocative performance of the hootchy-kootchy at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition to the political and economic activism after post-September 11th, the Trump Era, and finally a different kind of agency through radicalization through the Islamic State (IS). The structure of this dissertation uses the voice …
Shahrazad In The White City: Muslim Women's Agency Through Performance At The Columbian Exposition, Alexandra Me'av Anne Ellinwood Jerome
Shahrazad In The White City: Muslim Women's Agency Through Performance At The Columbian Exposition, Alexandra Me'av Anne Ellinwood Jerome
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Islamic Revival Movements And Revolution: The Cases Of Iran And Egypt, Myriam Kati Fizazi-Hawkins
Islamic Revival Movements And Revolution: The Cases Of Iran And Egypt, Myriam Kati Fizazi-Hawkins
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Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi And Ayatollah Khomeini: In Light Of Shi'i History, Brigitte U. Neary
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi And Ayatollah Khomeini: In Light Of Shi'i History, Brigitte U. Neary
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