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Alef Is for Allah : Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies / Jamal J. Elias.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elias, Jamal J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child development--Social aspects--Middle East--Cross-cultural studies.
- Child development.
- Muslim children--Religious life--Middle East--Cross-cultural studies.
- Muslim children.
- Visual perception--Cross-cultural studies.
- Visual perception.
- Children in mass media--Social aspects--Turkey--Case studies.
- Children in mass media.
- Children in mass media--Social aspects--Pakistan--Case studies.
- Children in mass media--Social aspects--Iran--Case studies.
- Emotions--Social aspects.
- Emotions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface on Transliteration and Conventions
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Of Children, Objects, and Seeing: An Introduction
- 2. Emotion and Its Affects
- 3. Bringing Up Baby: The Construction of Childhood
- 4. Good Muslims Do Their Homework
- 5. Cuteness and Childhood in Turkey
- 6. The Poster Children of Pakistan
- 7. Toy Guns and the Real Dead in Iran
- 8. Of Children, Adults, and Tomorrow: A Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780520421455
- 0520421450
- 9780520964402
- 0520964403
- OCLC:
- 994262768
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