Alef Is for Allah

Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies

Jamal J Elias author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:22nd May '18

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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. 

ISBN: 9780520290075

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm

Weight: 771g

304 pages