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    Alef Is for Allah: Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies
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    Alef Is for Allah: Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies

    By Jamal J. Elias

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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. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of California Press
    Release dateApr 6, 2018
    ISBN9780520964402
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    Alef Is for Allah: Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies
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    Jamal J. Elias

    Jamal J. Elias is Chair of the Department of Religious Studies and Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in Islamic thought and society, he has written and lectured widely on religion, art, and material culture in the Islamic world, as well as on Sufi philosophy and history and Qur'anic studies.

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