Love in the Middle East
The contradictions of romance in the Facebook World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5146008 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger Friedland (0009-0006-6125-9173, University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author), Janet Afary (0000-0002-6328-3621, University of California, Santa Barbara), Paolo Gardinali (University of California, Santa Barbara), Cambria Naslund (New York University) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 229-258 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Research on Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2050-3032 • E-ISSN: 2050-3040 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2050303216676523 |
| OpenAlex | W2560256267 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 18 |
Romantic love is a social fact in the Muslim world. It is also a gender politics impinging on religious and patriarchal understandings of female modesty and agency. This paper analyzes the rise of love as a basis of mate selection in a number of Muslim-majority countries: Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Palestine, Tunisia, and Turkey where we have conducted Web-based anonymous surveys of Facebook users. Young people increasingly want love in their married lives, but they and the communities in which they live remain uncomfortable with the mating practices through which such love has traditionally been achieved in the Western world. The paper explores the religious contradictions and the gender politics of modern heterosexual love
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |