Ala Rabiha Alhourani
Biographic Data
| ID | 141984 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ala Rabiha Alhourani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ala Rabiha |
| FAMILY NAME | Alhourani |
| SIGNATURE | ALHOURANI A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8108-117X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Deep Knowledge; Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions, written by Ogunnaike, Oludamini
The Aesthetic Life of Religion and Ethics on Long Street, Cape Town
This ethnography explores the aesthetic dimension of religion and the sensational ways in which it contributes to shaping ordinary ethics on Long Street in Cape Town, South Africa. In the context of everyday social life on Long Street, homeless peoples’ claim of an ethical character is denied recognition. Long Street is a public space of conviviality and differences, a hybrid social reality marked with growing urbanization, globalization, and neo…
Aesthetics and Ethics of Islam: The Art of Being a Gay Muslim
This essay explores the ways in which the aesthetic experience of Islam enables LGBTIQ Muslims to form and claim an Islamic identity, beyond the debate and contradictory views of the compatibility of homosexuality with Islam. The ethnography focuses on a gay Muslim artist from Cape Town, Igshaan Adams, whose life trajectory and artwork offer an insight into LGBTIQ Muslim’s struggle and reconciliation of their religiosity and sexuality. Despite th…
Aesthetics of Muslim-ness: Art and the Formation of Muslim Identity Politics
The paper explores two opposing yet simultaneous forces of aesthetics as transformative and constitutive force of Muslim identity politics, religiosity and cultural style in Cape Town The ethnography focuses on Muslim artists in Cape Town, namely Thania Petersen and twin brothers Hasan and Husain Essop, whose artworks embody a 'social drama' of a lived experience of Muslims' ongoing individual and collective active engagement with and appropriati…
Performative ethnography: Difference and conviviality of everyday multiculturalism in Bellville (Cape Town)
The paper explores the benefits of performative ethnography as a methodological intervention. The intervention discussed in this paper utilizes the persuasive power of aesthetics and performance to attain participation amongst a broad spectrum of research interlocutors and to challenge my own power and positionality in the fieldwork, whilst rendering me invisible as a participant observer. The performative ethnography discussed in this paper took…
Aesthetics of Muslim public and community formations in Cape Town: Observations of an Anthropologist
This paper explores the implications of the arrival of Muslim Somali immigrants for the emergence of other Muslim communities in post-apartheid Cape Town. The ethnography unpacks the complexity and diversity of Somali identity formation, their culturally distinct politics of aesthetics in performances of Muslim-ness, and how they form community. Further, the paper focuses on the mass celebration of Mawlid Al-Nabi (the celebration of Prophet Moham…
Islam, youth and modernity in the Gambia: The Tablighi Jama'at
2014). Islam, youth and modernity in the Gambia: the Tablighi Jama'at. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 37, No. 3-4, pp. 273-274
Performative ethnography: Difference and conviviality of everyday multiculturalism in Bellville (Cape Town)
The paper explores the benefits of performative ethnography as a methodological intervention. The intervention discussed in this paper utilizes the persuasive power of aesthetics and performance to attain participation amongst a broad spectrum of research interlocutors and to challenge my own power and positionality in the fieldwork, whilst rendering me invisible as a participant observer. The performative ethnography discussed in this paper took…
Aesthetics of Muslim public and community formations in Cape Town: Observations of an Anthropologist
This paper explores the implications of the arrival of Muslim Somali immigrants for the emergence of other Muslim communities in post-apartheid Cape Town. The ethnography unpacks the complexity and diversity of Somali identity formation, their culturally distinct politics of aesthetics in performances of Muslim-ness, and how they form community. Further, the paper focuses on the mass celebration of Mawlid Al-Nabi (the celebration of Prophet Moham…
Islam, youth and modernity in the Gambia: The Tablighi Jama'at
2014). Islam, youth and modernity in the Gambia: the Tablighi Jama'at. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 37, No. 3-4, pp. 273-274
Aesthetics of Muslim-ness: Art and the Formation of Muslim Identity Politics
The paper explores two opposing yet simultaneous forces of aesthetics as transformative and constitutive force of Muslim identity politics, religiosity and cultural style in Cape Town The ethnography focuses on Muslim artists in Cape Town, namely Thania Petersen and twin brothers Hasan and Husain Essop, whose artworks embody a 'social drama' of a lived experience of Muslims' ongoing individual and collective active engagement with and appropriati…
The Aesthetic Life of Religion and Ethics on Long Street, Cape Town
This ethnography explores the aesthetic dimension of religion and the sensational ways in which it contributes to shaping ordinary ethics on Long Street in Cape Town, South Africa. In the context of everyday social life on Long Street, homeless peoples’ claim of an ethical character is denied recognition. Long Street is a public space of conviviality and differences, a hybrid social reality marked with growing urbanization, globalization, and neo…
Islam, youth and modernity in the Gambia: The Tablighi Jama'at
2014). Islam, youth and modernity in the Gambia: the Tablighi Jama'at. Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol. 37, No. 3-4, pp. 273-274
Aesthetics of Muslim public and community formations in Cape Town: Observations of an Anthropologist
This paper explores the implications of the arrival of Muslim Somali immigrants for the emergence of other Muslim communities in post-apartheid Cape Town. The ethnography unpacks the complexity and diversity of Somali identity formation, their culturally distinct politics of aesthetics in performances of Muslim-ness, and how they form community. Further, the paper focuses on the mass celebration of Mawlid Al-Nabi (the celebration of Prophet Moham…
Performative ethnography: Difference and conviviality of everyday multiculturalism in Bellville (Cape Town)
The paper explores the benefits of performative ethnography as a methodological intervention. The intervention discussed in this paper utilizes the persuasive power of aesthetics and performance to attain participation amongst a broad spectrum of research interlocutors and to challenge my own power and positionality in the fieldwork, whilst rendering me invisible as a participant observer. The performative ethnography discussed in this paper took…
Aesthetics of Muslim-ness: Art and the Formation of Muslim Identity Politics
The paper explores two opposing yet simultaneous forces of aesthetics as transformative and constitutive force of Muslim identity politics, religiosity and cultural style in Cape Town The ethnography focuses on Muslim artists in Cape Town, namely Thania Petersen and twin brothers Hasan and Husain Essop, whose artworks embody a 'social drama' of a lived experience of Muslims' ongoing individual and collective active engagement with and appropriati…
Aesthetics and Ethics of Islam: The Art of Being a Gay Muslim
This essay explores the ways in which the aesthetic experience of Islam enables LGBTIQ Muslims to form and claim an Islamic identity, beyond the debate and contradictory views of the compatibility of homosexuality with Islam. The ethnography focuses on a gay Muslim artist from Cape Town, Igshaan Adams, whose life trajectory and artwork offer an insight into LGBTIQ Muslim’s struggle and reconciliation of their religiosity and sexuality. Despite th…
The Aesthetic Life of Religion and Ethics on Long Street, Cape Town
This ethnography explores the aesthetic dimension of religion and the sensational ways in which it contributes to shaping ordinary ethics on Long Street in Cape Town, South Africa. In the context of everyday social life on Long Street, homeless peoples’ claim of an ethical character is denied recognition. Long Street is a public space of conviviality and differences, a hybrid social reality marked with growing urbanization, globalization, and neo…
Deep Knowledge; Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions, written by Ogunnaike, Oludamini
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Islam (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)