Medicines of the Soul: Female Bodies and Sacred Geographies in a Transnational Islam"Fedwa Malti-Douglas . . . crosses linguistic, cultural, national, and religious frontiers; she gives consistency to an Islamic revival differentiated from Islamic fundamentalism, challenging methods, programs, problematisations of social, and political sciences applied to the study of the contemporary Islamic textual corpus. It is a needed contribution to the interpretation of the born-again phenomenon as expressed by female figures emerging from Islamic context where so far women are subjects talked about more than the subjects talking."—Mohammed Arkoun, editor of Arabica "The author's voice is nuanced by her wide knowledge of Islam, of feminism, and of life. One comes to know these women well, and to care about them. I was often deeply moved, and I was also often moved to laughter by the zany Marx Brothers—like collisions between the registers of East and West, or medicine and religion, or just between the wits of these gutsy, self-aware women and the flat-footed male establishment."—Wendy Doniger, author of The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade "A remarkable book. Combining textual analysis and biography Fedwa Malti-Douglas opens new vistas in understanding Islamist women and gender relations in contemporary Islam."—John L. Esposito, University Professor, Georgetown University |
Contents
Gender Culture and Religious Revival I | 1 |
Female Body Male Gaze | 15 |
Gender and Spiritual Vision | 48 |
Corporal Geographies of Salvation | 93 |
Sacred Springs Damaged Bodies | 119 |
The Integrated Body | 148 |
Geographies of the Sacred | 168 |
Notes | 187 |
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