Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East

, by Bowen, Donna Lee; Early, Evelyn A.; Bowen, Donna Lee

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ISBN: 9780253312532 | 0253312531
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/1/1993

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Supplemental Materials

Preface

Note On Transliteration

Introduction

(12)

Part I Generations and Life Passages

Introduction

(4)

Traditional Songs from Boir Ahmad

(6)

Erika Friedl

Growing Up in Morocco

(11)

Susan Schaefer Davis

Children and War

(4)

Louise Berdal

Memoirs of a Street Tough

(9)

Yusuf Abu Haggag

Everett K. Rowson

``Of the Dust and the Wind'': Arranged Marriage in Afghanistan

(10)

Margaret A. Mills

The Son's Return

(6)

Driss Chraibi

The Funeral

(18)

Driss Chraibi

Part II Gender Relations

Introduction

(4)

Women and Sex

(3)

Nawal El Saadawi

Donna Lee Bowen

Dilemmas of Adolescence: Courtship, Sex, and Marriage in a Moroccan Town

(7)

Douglas A. Davis

Susan Schaefer Davis

Pragmatic Morality: Islam and Family Planning in Morocco

(11)

Donna Lee Bowen

Fertility and Fate: Medical Practices among Baladi Women of Cairo

102

(7)

Evelyn A. Early

Personal Status Law in Sudan

109

(10)

Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban

The Veiled Revolution

119

(9)

Elizabeth W. Fernea

Part III Home, Community, and Work

Introduction

125

(3)

Rites of Hospitality and Aesthetics

128

(8)

Aida S. Kanafani

The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid

136

Tayeb Salih

The Nasiriyya Brotherhood of Southern Morocco

146

(157)

James A. Miller

Donna Lee Bowen

Lying, Honor, and Contradiction

157

(13)

Michael Gilsenan

Editing al-Fajr: A Palestinian Newspaper in Jerusalem

170

(5)

Bishara Bahbah

Hajj Nejm's Cures and Tales

175

(3)

Abdel-Salam Al Ujaili

Evelyn A. Early

Islam and Hajj Brahim's World

178

(4)

John Waterbury

Suqs of the Middle East: Commercial Centers Past and Present

182

(28)

Robert Fernea

Part IV Popular Expression of Religion

Introduction

205

(5)

Selections from the Quran Translated

210

(3)

Juan E. Campo

The Sound of the Divine in Daily Life

213

(5)

Kristina Nelson

Abu Illya and Zakat

218

(4)

Donna Lee Bowen

An American Woman on the Hajj

222

(8)

Michael E. Jansen

Sayyida Zainab: The Chosen of Bani Hashim

230

(4)

Muhammad Fahmi Abdal-Wahab

Evelyn A. Early

New Year's Day at Ali's Shrine

234

(5)

Robert L. Canfield

Women and Shrines in Shiraz

239

(15)

Anne H. Betteridge

Part V Performance and Entertainment

Introduction

251

(3)

Humor: The Two-Edged Sword

254

(10)

Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot

Darid Laham: Political Satirist as Modern Storyteller

264

(7)

Evelyn A. Early

``To Mount at-Tiyal He Declared'': Some Poetry from the Yemeni Civil War

271

(5)

Steven C. Caton

Entertainment in the Marketplace

276

(5)

Philip D. Schuyler

Sad Songs of the Western Desert

281

(6)

Lila Abu-Lughod

A Folk Revival in Morocco

287

(8)

Philip D. Schuyler

Glossary

295

(10)

Selected Readings

305

(8)

Notes On Contributors

313

(4)

Index

317

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Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East

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