El‐sayed El‐aswad
Biographic Data
| ID | 90557 |
|---|---|
| NAME | El‐sayed El‐aswad |
| GIVEN NAMES | El‐sayed |
| FAMILY NAME | El‐aswad |
| SIGNATURE | EL ASWAD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Arab Emirates University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9203-7481 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The invisible other: Rituals and Egyptian perception of the unknowable
This paper is positioned within broader scholarly debates about ritual-religious and psychological elements underlying the phenomenon of altered states of mind in Egyptian Muslim contexts. This research examines the intricate relationships between ritual, consciousness, and the unseen/unknowable world reflected in the imagination and practices of urban and rural communities belonging administratively to the city of Tanta in Egypt. This comparativ…
Countering Islamophobia in North America: A Quality-of-Life Approach
Oriental Images and Ethics. British Empire and the Arab Gulf (1727–1971). A Perspective from Historical Anthropology
This article examines the images of the Arabian Gulf before and after the establishment of the Trucial States, presently the United Arab Emirates, in order to understand how such images have been constructed to change the culture of the region. Oriental images of the Arabian Gulf, reflecting the relationship between the Orient (Arab/Islam) and the West, were created in different historical stages. During the first stage (1727-1819), European orie…
Combatting Jihadist Terrorism through Nation-Building: A Quality-of-Life Perspective
The Quality of Life and Policy Issues among the Middle East and North African Countries
Keys to al-Ghaib: A Cross-Cultural Study
The significance of religion and concepts ofal-ghaib(the invisible and unknowable) and sanctity in a materialistically oriented and globally dominant and changing world has been a nexus of current debates in Orthodox Islam. The concept ofal-ghaibis a fundamental principle in Islamic theology; however, it has a profound impact on Muslim's daily lives. Thenceforth, this study focuses on the concepts ofal-ghaib,or invisibility, sanctity, and imagina…
Political Challenges Confronting the Islamic World
Metaphors Arab Women Live By
The scholarship of metaphor as an analytical concept in the study of Arab society, in general, and Arab women, in particular, is woefully scarce. Based on ethnographic research in Egypt and United Arab Emirates, this paper discusses how culturally shared metaphors used by Arab women in their everyday lives reveal important cosmological and social features. The study refutes the claim that women serve as metaphors for men, while men do not perform…
Images ofMuslims inWestern Scholarship and Media after 9/11
This article endeavors to trace changes in the images of theMuslim of theOrient, a product ofOrientalism, to contemporary images of theMuslim post 9/11, marking a transition from classicalOrientalism to a newOrientalism orIslamism. The study demonstrates how most Western scholarship and media, through the construction of so-called Islamophobia, have portrayedMuslims in terms of global terrorism,Islamic jihadism, fanaticIslamism, fundamentalism, f…
Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radial Islamism - By John Calvert
For the Living and the Dead: The Funerary Laments of Upper Egypt, Ancient and Modern - By Elizabeth Wickett
A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order - By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri
The Perceptibility of the Invisible Cosmology: Religious Rituals and Embodied Spirituality among the Bahraini Shi‘a
This article analyses the relationship between the seen and the unseen in the cosmology and practices of Bahraini Shi'a. Rather than contrasting the visible and the invisible, the study delineates the hierarchical relations between them, within a whole or cosmology, as reflected in various discursive and non-discursive actions that are supported by the religious beliefs of Bahraini Shi'a. Issues of the Hidden Imam, concealment, dissimulation and …
Fábos, AnitaH: “Brothers” or Others? Propriety andGender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt
Anthropos , Seite 273 - 274
Narrating the Self among Arab Americans: A Bridging Discourse between Arab Tradition and American Culture
This article expounds the nature of Arab American identity through an exploration of discourses and practices related to traveling and movement at global and local levels, with a particular emphasis on personal narratives of both men and women of different ages and socioeconomic backgrounds. Travel is dealt with here in its broad meaning and connotes migratory travel, and immigration. It also indicates traveling back and forth between the homelan…
Middle East Oil: A Redistribution of Values Arising from the Oil Industry - By Mohamed bin Abdul Latif bin Mohamed Al-Mulhim
Egypt after Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World - By Bruce K. Rutherford
Dreams and the Construction of Reality. Symbolic Transformations of the Seen and the Unseen in the Egyptian Imagination
Anthropos , Seite 441 - 454
Islamic Attitudes to Israel: Ephraim Karsh and P. R. Kumaraswamy, eds
Abu Dhabi: Oil and Beyond: Christopher M. Davidson
Lost in the Sacred: Why the Muslim World Stood Still: Dan Diner; Trans. by Steve Rendall
Geographies of Muslim Identities: Diaspora, Gender and Belonging : Cara Aitchison, Peter Hopkins and Mei‐Po Kwan, Eds
Islamism and Modernism: The Changing Discourse in Iran: Farhang Rajaee
The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi'i Islam: Kamran Scott Ahgaie, Ed
Abu-Lughod, Lila: Dramas of Nationhood
Anthropos , Seite 241 - 242
Images ofMuslims inWestern Scholarship and Media after 9/11
This article endeavors to trace changes in the images of theMuslim of theOrient, a product ofOrientalism, to contemporary images of theMuslim post 9/11, marking a transition from classicalOrientalism to a newOrientalism orIslamism. The study demonstrates how most Western scholarship and media, through the construction of so-called Islamophobia, have portrayedMuslims in terms of global terrorism,Islamic jihadism, fanaticIslamism, fundamentalism, f…
Spiritual Genealogy: Sufism and Saintly Places in the Nile Delta
Although spiritual realities do not find a place in the explanatory scheme of modern science, they nevertheless play a significant role in the everyday life of people. This article discusses the interrelationship between blood and spiritual genealogies among Sufi orders in the Muslim world in general and in the Nile Delta of Egypt in particular. Contrary to theories of geographic reductionism that highlight the geographical features of the Delta,…
Dreams and the Construction of Reality. Symbolic Transformations of the Seen and the Unseen in the Egyptian Imagination
Anthropos , Seite 441 - 454
The invisible other: Rituals and Egyptian perception of the unknowable
This paper is positioned within broader scholarly debates about ritual-religious and psychological elements underlying the phenomenon of altered states of mind in Egyptian Muslim contexts. This research examines the intricate relationships between ritual, consciousness, and the unseen/unknowable world reflected in the imagination and practices of urban and rural communities belonging administratively to the city of Tanta in Egypt. This comparativ…
Keys to al-Ghaib: A Cross-Cultural Study
The significance of religion and concepts ofal-ghaib(the invisible and unknowable) and sanctity in a materialistically oriented and globally dominant and changing world has been a nexus of current debates in Orthodox Islam. The concept ofal-ghaibis a fundamental principle in Islamic theology; however, it has a profound impact on Muslim's daily lives. Thenceforth, this study focuses on the concepts ofal-ghaib,or invisibility, sanctity, and imagina…
Metaphors Arab Women Live By
The scholarship of metaphor as an analytical concept in the study of Arab society, in general, and Arab women, in particular, is woefully scarce. Based on ethnographic research in Egypt and United Arab Emirates, this paper discusses how culturally shared metaphors used by Arab women in their everyday lives reveal important cosmological and social features. The study refutes the claim that women serve as metaphors for men, while men do not perform…
Narrating the Self among Arab Americans: A Bridging Discourse between Arab Tradition and American Culture
This article expounds the nature of Arab American identity through an exploration of discourses and practices related to traveling and movement at global and local levels, with a particular emphasis on personal narratives of both men and women of different ages and socioeconomic backgrounds. Travel is dealt with here in its broad meaning and connotes migratory travel, and immigration. It also indicates traveling back and forth between the homelan…
Islamic Attitudes to Israel: Ephraim Karsh and P. R. Kumaraswamy, eds
Islam in Urban America: Sunni Muslims in Chicago; Garbi Schmidt
Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi'ite Islam: Juan Cole, Ph.D
Middle East Section: The Ethnography of Invisible Spheres
Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi'ite Islam: Juan Cole, Ph.D
Rethinking the Middle East; Efraim Karsh
Islam in Urban America: Sunni Muslims in Chicago; Garbi Schmidt
The Permeability of the Middle East: The Predicament of Regional and Global Forces: a Review Easy
Book reviewed in this article: Persistent Permeability? regionalism, localism, and globalization in the Middle East: by Bassel F. Salloukh and Rex Brynen, eds. A History of the Modern Middle East: by William L. Cleveland Middle East at the Crossroads: the Changing Political Dynamics and the Foreign Policy Challenges: by Manochehr Dorraj, ed. Conflict and Peace in the Middle East: National Perceptions and United States‐Jordan Relations: by Hatem S…
Spiritual Genealogy: Sufism and Saintly Places in the Nile Delta
Although spiritual realities do not find a place in the explanatory scheme of modern science, they nevertheless play a significant role in the everyday life of people. This article discusses the interrelationship between blood and spiritual genealogies among Sufi orders in the Muslim world in general and in the Nile Delta of Egypt in particular. Contrary to theories of geographic reductionism that highlight the geographical features of the Delta,…
Applied Anthropology in Egypt: Practicing Anthropology within Local and Global Contexts
This chapter discusses the locally and globally oriented domains of applied anthropology in Egypt. It examines the micro and macro factors that have both positive and negative impact on the progress of applied anthropology in Egypt, including extensive bureaucracy, inadequate education, insufficient funding, global violence, terrorism, security, civil society, and NGOs. Despite the challenging conditions of academic and applied research in Egypt,…
The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi'i Islam: Kamran Scott Ahgaie, Ed
Abu-Lughod, Lila: Dramas of Nationhood
Anthropos , Seite 241 - 242
Geographies of Muslim Identities: Diaspora, Gender and Belonging : Cara Aitchison, Peter Hopkins and Mei‐Po Kwan, Eds
Islamism and Modernism: The Changing Discourse in Iran: Farhang Rajaee
Islamic Attitudes to Israel: Ephraim Karsh and P. R. Kumaraswamy, eds
Abu Dhabi: Oil and Beyond: Christopher M. Davidson
Lost in the Sacred: Why the Muslim World Stood Still: Dan Diner; Trans. by Steve Rendall
The Perceptibility of the Invisible Cosmology: Religious Rituals and Embodied Spirituality among the Bahraini Shi‘a
This article analyses the relationship between the seen and the unseen in the cosmology and practices of Bahraini Shi'a. Rather than contrasting the visible and the invisible, the study delineates the hierarchical relations between them, within a whole or cosmology, as reflected in various discursive and non-discursive actions that are supported by the religious beliefs of Bahraini Shi'a. Issues of the Hidden Imam, concealment, dissimulation and …
Fábos, AnitaH: “Brothers” or Others? Propriety andGender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt
Anthropos , Seite 273 - 274
Narrating the Self among Arab Americans: A Bridging Discourse between Arab Tradition and American Culture
This article expounds the nature of Arab American identity through an exploration of discourses and practices related to traveling and movement at global and local levels, with a particular emphasis on personal narratives of both men and women of different ages and socioeconomic backgrounds. Travel is dealt with here in its broad meaning and connotes migratory travel, and immigration. It also indicates traveling back and forth between the homelan…
Middle East Oil: A Redistribution of Values Arising from the Oil Industry - By Mohamed bin Abdul Latif bin Mohamed Al-Mulhim
Egypt after Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World - By Bruce K. Rutherford
Dreams and the Construction of Reality. Symbolic Transformations of the Seen and the Unseen in the Egyptian Imagination
Anthropos , Seite 441 - 454
For the Living and the Dead: The Funerary Laments of Upper Egypt, Ancient and Modern - By Elizabeth Wickett
A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order - By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri
Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radial Islamism - By John Calvert
Images ofMuslims inWestern Scholarship and Media after 9/11
This article endeavors to trace changes in the images of theMuslim of theOrient, a product ofOrientalism, to contemporary images of theMuslim post 9/11, marking a transition from classicalOrientalism to a newOrientalism orIslamism. The study demonstrates how most Western scholarship and media, through the construction of so-called Islamophobia, have portrayedMuslims in terms of global terrorism,Islamic jihadism, fanaticIslamism, fundamentalism, f…
Metaphors Arab Women Live By
The scholarship of metaphor as an analytical concept in the study of Arab society, in general, and Arab women, in particular, is woefully scarce. Based on ethnographic research in Egypt and United Arab Emirates, this paper discusses how culturally shared metaphors used by Arab women in their everyday lives reveal important cosmological and social features. The study refutes the claim that women serve as metaphors for men, while men do not perform…
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