Shaheed Tayob
Biographic Data
| ID | 312615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shaheed Tayob |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shaheed |
| FAMILY NAME | Tayob |
| SIGNATURE | TAYOB S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9585-4580 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Disgust and Disdain in Meat Interactions in Mumbai
In Mumbai, the live slaughter of meat by Muslim butchers is an intergenerational caste practice and a source of livelihood and labour, supplying ritually slaughtered halal meat for Muslims, and fresh quality meat for others in the city. Yet in the neoliberal Hindu Nationalist imagination, the very sights, smells, and sounds of butchering are a sign of Muslim abjection, a source of disgust to be eradicated from the “world-class” Hindu city. Muslim…
Nourishment
Trading Halal
Halal certification introduces a new discursive and material basis for the regulation of Muslim consumption in a world of global trade and complex food technology. Through chemical tests and state of the art supply chain management the halal certification industry aims to replace the necessity of intra-Muslim trade for the practice of halal. This paper presents the approach of two competing halal certification organizations in South Africa in int…
Halal Consumption as Ethical Practice
In recent decades, the halal certification logo has emerged as a global phenomenon. Halal certification is an attempt to produce a new discursive and material basis for the practice of halal. Halal is extended into new places and products. In South Africa Muslim consumers now query the halal status of tomato sauce, bottled water and even food consumed at the homes of friends and family. Certification is a technology of halal whereby consumers sel…
Muslim Food Culture
The anthropology of Muslim food practices is a burgeoning field that promises to shift the focus away from the dominant concern with rules, conformity, and piety. Food offers an embodied and material location through which to explore the way in which religion, economy, technology, ethics, and everyday life intersect. Studying food brings into view an aspect of Muslim religious and social life that is often commented on in popular media but rarely…
Disgust as Embodied Critique
Hindu nationalist discourse articulates a link between the violence of slaughter and the notion of a violent, abject Muslim as the cruel ‘other’. However, for Muslims in Mumbai, the cruelty of slaughter is not inherent, and questions of order and propriety are heavily circumscribed by communal politics. This paper presents moments during Bakri Id (Qurbani) and everyday life when participants evoke or experience disgust. Drawing on a discursive tr…
O You who Believe, Eat of the Tayyibāt (pure and wholesome food) that We Have Provided You'-Producing Risk, Expertise and Certified Halal Consumption in South Africa
This article is an analysis of the development of halal consumption in South Africa. Research on the contemporary consumption of halal has argued for an articulation of Muslim identity in a variety of settings. What evades these scholarly analyses is the production of halal as a commodity. How is it that halal consumption, as defined by Islamic dietary law, has been produced into a separately identifiable product? This paper argues that in South …
The 2010 World Cup in South Africa
South Africa's hosting of the 2010 World Cup resulted in billions of Rand being spent on event-related infrastructure. Politicians and event organisers justified the spending as a necessary investment in the future of the country. The hosting of the 2010 World Cup was presented as a turning-point in the country's fortunes that would bring economic prosperity with it whilst helping to unite a once-divided nation. However, protests from workers' un…
Disgust as Embodied Critique
Hindu nationalist discourse articulates a link between the violence of slaughter and the notion of a violent, abject Muslim as the cruel ‘other’. However, for Muslims in Mumbai, the cruelty of slaughter is not inherent, and questions of order and propriety are heavily circumscribed by communal politics. This paper presents moments during Bakri Id (Qurbani) and everyday life when participants evoke or experience disgust. Drawing on a discursive tr…
O You who Believe, Eat of the Tayyibāt (pure and wholesome food) that We Have Provided You'-Producing Risk, Expertise and Certified Halal Consumption in South Africa
This article is an analysis of the development of halal consumption in South Africa. Research on the contemporary consumption of halal has argued for an articulation of Muslim identity in a variety of settings. What evades these scholarly analyses is the production of halal as a commodity. How is it that halal consumption, as defined by Islamic dietary law, has been produced into a separately identifiable product? This paper argues that in South …
The 2010 World Cup in South Africa
South Africa's hosting of the 2010 World Cup resulted in billions of Rand being spent on event-related infrastructure. Politicians and event organisers justified the spending as a necessary investment in the future of the country. The hosting of the 2010 World Cup was presented as a turning-point in the country's fortunes that would bring economic prosperity with it whilst helping to unite a once-divided nation. However, protests from workers' un…
O You who Believe, Eat of the Tayyibāt (pure and wholesome food) that We Have Provided You'-Producing Risk, Expertise and Certified Halal Consumption in South Africa
This article is an analysis of the development of halal consumption in South Africa. Research on the contemporary consumption of halal has argued for an articulation of Muslim identity in a variety of settings. What evades these scholarly analyses is the production of halal as a commodity. How is it that halal consumption, as defined by Islamic dietary law, has been produced into a separately identifiable product? This paper argues that in South …
Muslim Food Culture
The anthropology of Muslim food practices is a burgeoning field that promises to shift the focus away from the dominant concern with rules, conformity, and piety. Food offers an embodied and material location through which to explore the way in which religion, economy, technology, ethics, and everyday life intersect. Studying food brings into view an aspect of Muslim religious and social life that is often commented on in popular media but rarely…
Disgust as Embodied Critique
Hindu nationalist discourse articulates a link between the violence of slaughter and the notion of a violent, abject Muslim as the cruel ‘other’. However, for Muslims in Mumbai, the cruelty of slaughter is not inherent, and questions of order and propriety are heavily circumscribed by communal politics. This paper presents moments during Bakri Id (Qurbani) and everyday life when participants evoke or experience disgust. Drawing on a discursive tr…
Trading Halal
Halal certification introduces a new discursive and material basis for the regulation of Muslim consumption in a world of global trade and complex food technology. Through chemical tests and state of the art supply chain management the halal certification industry aims to replace the necessity of intra-Muslim trade for the practice of halal. This paper presents the approach of two competing halal certification organizations in South Africa in int…
Halal Consumption as Ethical Practice
In recent decades, the halal certification logo has emerged as a global phenomenon. Halal certification is an attempt to produce a new discursive and material basis for the practice of halal. Halal is extended into new places and products. In South Africa Muslim consumers now query the halal status of tomato sauce, bottled water and even food consumed at the homes of friends and family. Certification is a technology of halal whereby consumers sel…
Nourishment
Disgust and Disdain in Meat Interactions in Mumbai
In Mumbai, the live slaughter of meat by Muslim butchers is an intergenerational caste practice and a source of livelihood and labour, supplying ritually slaughtered halal meat for Muslims, and fresh quality meat for others in the city. Yet in the neoliberal Hindu Nationalist imagination, the very sights, smells, and sounds of butchering are a sign of Muslim abjection, a source of disgust to be eradicated from the “world-class” Hindu city. Muslim…
Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Halal products and consumer behavior (4 works) · Marketing (4 works) · Certification (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Islam (3 works) · Politics (3 works)