Sumbul Farah
Biographic Data
| ID | 935595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sumbul Farah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sumbul |
| FAMILY NAME | Farah |
| SIGNATURE | FARAH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Uncanny ethics
The recent anthropological focus on “ordinary ethics” emerges out of a concern to attend to the ethical aspect of social action that is intrinsic to the human condition. Ethnographic and theoretical contributions to this literature have drawn on a variety of philosophical approaches to the study of the “everyday” and the forms that ethical practice takes therein. However, a world affected by the COVID-19 pandemic is far from the “everyday” that i…
Discipline and Nurture
This article presents an ethnography of a contemporary residential madrasa for teenage Muslim girls in a North Indian town undertaken by a team of two researchers. We focused on different aspects of the overall study, with Sanyal conducting participant observation within the madrasa and Farah interviewing a select number of graduates and former students in their home environments. The result is a comprehensive picture of the madrasa's transformat…
Aqeeda, Adab and Aitraaz
Through an exploration of the concepts that inform one's conduct in everyday life, this article seeks to make manifest the performative code that lies at the heart of Barelwiyat. To 'be' a Barelwi, it is necessary to owe allegiance to a particular worldview in a way that one's faith is inscribed onto one's self, both within and without. An ineluctable relationship is thus forged between 'doing' and 'being', wherein both affirmation and denunciati…
Aqeeda, Adab and Aitraaz
Through an exploration of the concepts that inform one's conduct in everyday life, this article seeks to make manifest the performative code that lies at the heart of Barelwiyat. To 'be' a Barelwi, it is necessary to owe allegiance to a particular worldview in a way that one's faith is inscribed onto one's self, both within and without. An ineluctable relationship is thus forged between 'doing' and 'being', wherein both affirmation and denunciati…
Discipline and Nurture
This article presents an ethnography of a contemporary residential madrasa for teenage Muslim girls in a North Indian town undertaken by a team of two researchers. We focused on different aspects of the overall study, with Sanyal conducting participant observation within the madrasa and Farah interviewing a select number of graduates and former students in their home environments. The result is a comprehensive picture of the madrasa's transformat…
Aqeeda, Adab and Aitraaz
Through an exploration of the concepts that inform one's conduct in everyday life, this article seeks to make manifest the performative code that lies at the heart of Barelwiyat. To 'be' a Barelwi, it is necessary to owe allegiance to a particular worldview in a way that one's faith is inscribed onto one's self, both within and without. An ineluctable relationship is thus forged between 'doing' and 'being', wherein both affirmation and denunciati…
Discipline and Nurture
This article presents an ethnography of a contemporary residential madrasa for teenage Muslim girls in a North Indian town undertaken by a team of two researchers. We focused on different aspects of the overall study, with Sanyal conducting participant observation within the madrasa and Farah interviewing a select number of graduates and former students in their home environments. The result is a comprehensive picture of the madrasa's transformat…
Uncanny ethics
The recent anthropological focus on “ordinary ethics” emerges out of a concern to attend to the ethical aspect of social action that is intrinsic to the human condition. Ethnographic and theoretical contributions to this literature have drawn on a variety of philosophical approaches to the study of the “everyday” and the forms that ethical practice takes therein. However, a world affected by the COVID-19 pandemic is far from the “everyday” that i…
Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (1 work) · Allegiance (1 work) · Code (set theory (1 work)