 | Alef Is for Allah: Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies Subjects: Child development -- Social aspects -- Middle East -- Cross-cultural studies; Muslim children -- Religious life -- Middle East -- Cross-cultural studies; Visual perception -- Cross-cultural studies; Children in mass media -- Social aspects -- Turkey -- Ca; Alef Is for Allah is the first groundbreaking study of the emotional space occupied by children in modern Islamic societies. Focusing primarily on visual representations of children from modern Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan, the book examines these materials to investigate concepts such as innocence, cuteness, gender, virtue, and devotion, as well as community, nationhood, violence, and sacrifice. In addition to exploring a subject that has never been studied comparatively before, Alef Is for Allah extends the boundaries of scholarship on emotion, religion, and visual culture and provides unique insight into Islam as it is lived and experienced in the modern world. Elias Jamal J. : Jamal J. Elias is Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies and South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous publications on a broad range of subjects relevant to the medieval and modern Islamic world. |
