Sarah Eltantawi
Biographic Data
| ID | 5178992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Eltantawi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Eltantawi |
| SIGNATURE | ELTANTAWI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Advanced Study |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Peaceful Families
Juliane Hammer’s Peaceful Families weaves ethnographic research on incidences of and responses to domestic violence (DV) in the American Muslim community within a set of interlocking theoretical questions concerning the relationship between Qurʾanic exegesis and action, the efficacy of anti-DV initiatives in Islamic spaces and among Muslims in non-Islamic spaces, and the status of Muslim bodies—both female and male—as “others” in mainstream Ameri…
Shari'ah on Trial
In November, 1999, hundreds of thousands of Northern Nigerians took to the streets of Zamfara state to demand the (re)implementation of full shar’iah penal law. Insisting on the laws of God where the laws of man had failed, Nigerians believed shari’ah would stem massive corruption and deepening poverty in their society. Two years after shar’iah, a peasant woman from Katsina state, Amina Lawal, was sentenced to death by stoning for committing the …
What Does “Modernity” and “Postmodernity” Mean to Northern Nigerians
The concepts of “postmodernity” and “postcoloniality” are often used interchangeably in the study of nonwestern cultures. These terms are both temporal markers and signifiers of a set of affects and values. This contribution to the roundtable argues that the slippage in the multivalent meanings of these terms ends up misrepresenting the empirical ethos that animates contemporary Northern Nigeria. The disjuncture, fracture, and violence experience…
Women, Gender, and Islam in Africa and Beyond
Scholars of Islamic law, gender, and Africa will be pleased with the arrival of two important new volumes that are bold in their bringing together of ethnographic data with legal history and analysis. Margot Badran's Gender and Islam in Africa: Rights, Sexuality, and Law , and Christina Jones-Pauly and Abir Dajanfi Tuqan's Women under Islam: Gender Justice and the Politics of Islamic Law collectively advance a movement in Islamic legal studies th…
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Women, Gender, and Islam in Africa and Beyond
Scholars of Islamic law, gender, and Africa will be pleased with the arrival of two important new volumes that are bold in their bringing together of ethnographic data with legal history and analysis. Margot Badran's Gender and Islam in Africa: Rights, Sexuality, and Law , and Christina Jones-Pauly and Abir Dajanfi Tuqan's Women under Islam: Gender Justice and the Politics of Islamic Law collectively advance a movement in Islamic legal studies th…
What Does “Modernity” and “Postmodernity” Mean to Northern Nigerians
The concepts of “postmodernity” and “postcoloniality” are often used interchangeably in the study of nonwestern cultures. These terms are both temporal markers and signifiers of a set of affects and values. This contribution to the roundtable argues that the slippage in the multivalent meanings of these terms ends up misrepresenting the empirical ethos that animates contemporary Northern Nigeria. The disjuncture, fracture, and violence experience…
Shari'ah on Trial
In November, 1999, hundreds of thousands of Northern Nigerians took to the streets of Zamfara state to demand the (re)implementation of full shar’iah penal law. Insisting on the laws of God where the laws of man had failed, Nigerians believed shari’ah would stem massive corruption and deepening poverty in their society. Two years after shar’iah, a peasant woman from Katsina state, Amina Lawal, was sentenced to death by stoning for committing the …
Peaceful Families
Juliane Hammer’s Peaceful Families weaves ethnographic research on incidences of and responses to domestic violence (DV) in the American Muslim community within a set of interlocking theoretical questions concerning the relationship between Qurʾanic exegesis and action, the efficacy of anti-DV initiatives in Islamic spaces and among Muslims in non-Islamic spaces, and the status of Muslim bodies—both female and male—as “others” in mainstream Ameri…
Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Islam (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Peasant (2 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (2 works)