In the second section, the religiously committed artists' own views on gender, art, and
religion will be central. In the final section, I will highlight the changing discourse on art …

Imam ʿalI KhamInaʾI there Is a wIde varIety of religious discourses on the permissibility of
music and performing arts in Islam. As Otterbeck (this volume) shows, a spectrum of voices …

In 2014, amid anti-Islamist sentiment in Egypt, the athlete Manal Rostom founded a
Facebook group to support hijabis. Intended as a space of internal discussion and solidarity …

This article discusses the cultural politics of the Taliban and Hizbullah. While Hizbullah
embraces 'resistance art'and encourages purposeful music and artistic expressions as pious …

Abstract Art plays an important role for politically engaged Muslims and promotes
moderation (wasaṭīyah). Moderation has a civilizational mission: to buttress an open …

Theaters of Citizenship investigates the Egyptian movement for free theater, arguing that it
evolved from an avant-gardist movement to an undercommons of revolutionary cultural …

This article discusses the influence of the Islamic Revival on the field of popular art, as well
as the influence of market forces on the field of religious art productions, by taking the …

This article discusses the concept of purposeful art (al-fann al-hadif), which is ideologically
motivated art that caters to Muslim religious sensibilities, in opposition to lowbrow art (al …

In the 1980s, several Egyptian artists saw 'the light'and publicly announced their retirement
from art: the actress Shams al-Barudi (1982) shortly followed by her husband Hassan Yusif …

This chapter examines the new manifestations of Islamic consciousness have emerged in
the political visions of Islamist parties in Yemen and Tunisia, and the way in which …