The dread heights : tribulation and refuge after the Syrian Revolution / Basit Kareem Iqbal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iqbal, Basit Kareem, author.

Series:

Thinking from elsewhere.

Thinking from Elsewhere Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarian assistance--Middle East--History--21st century.

Humanitarian assistance.

Islam and social problems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Tribulation and Refuge after the Syrian Revolution

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Muslim charities and community organizations have assumed a massive role in refugee support since the Syrian revolution: in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and well beyond, they deliver food aid and house orphans, offer remedial education programs and organize summer camps. But Islam is more than just a new resource for humanitarian projects. Based on fieldwork conducted in Jordan and Canada, The Dread Heights follows how refugees, relief workers, and religious scholars wonder what fate has brought them there, how exile affects the soul, and how their new contexts should be traversed. Such existential questions are not exceptional to humanitarian sites: they spring from the everyday work of inhabiting a tradition. This book details how Islam guides those who seek to survive a world of brutal sieges and mass displacement. Although refugees become objects of humanitarian concern through being suspended between national orders, The Dread Heights brings another suspension into view: a form of life whose key gestures are illuminated by the Quranic figure of the Heights. This ethnography pursues an awful lucidity across the search for refuge, the cleaving of community, the trials of creational existence, and the ultimately enigmatic divine decree. In the shadow of the war, beyond humanitarian order, Islam offers an orientation to the devastation of the present"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Series Editors

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction: God Grants Relief

1. Refuge

The Ruin of Community,

Translating Muslim Humanitarianism,

Abstemious Images,

Pedagogy in Exile,

No Refuge from God but God

Threshold: Natality

2. Tribulation

Accepting,

Reckoning,

Distributing,

Disclosing,

A Grammar of Tribulation

Threshold: Ambivalence

3. The Heights

Woe to Our Condition Here,

Brutal Tyranny,

As Though It Were Yesterday,

If the Horizon Breaks,

The Dread Heights

Afterword: Eternity Has Fallen

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Series List.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-280) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781531510336

1531510337

9781531510343

1531510345

OCLC:

1528950599