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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies
In Moroccan Female Religious Agents: Old Practices and New
Perspectives, Ouguir studies Moroccan female religious agents in
particular historical women saints and Sufis, the way they
constructed powerful saintly personalities that challenged the
dominant conventional norms, and the way they are received by
venerators and feminist Islamist activists of modern Morocco.
Through hagiographic and oral narratives, Ouguir examines the
techniques religious women followed to achieve ethical
self-formation and strong religious personalities that promoted
them to leadership. She also examined the venerators', murshid t
and Islamist feminists' reception of women saints in their
discourses. Ouguir states convincingly that Moroccan religious
women agents in both Morocco's past and present are to be
highlighted for broader discourses on Muslim women and feminism.
Essay on Islamization is a study of the Islamization of all Muslim
societies and their conversion to orthodox Islam which, with its
chapels, soldier monks and holy war, leads to fundamentalism as
well as to a moral puritanism. Cherkaoui gauges the importance of
this global phenomenon by analyzing the empirical data of some
sixty Muslim and non-Muslim societies. He also conducts two
ethnographic surveys to identify the metamorphoses of Muslim
religious practices and their causes.
Nonfiction. In this pioneering work Olu Oguibe charts the life and
career of Uzo Egonu, from his origins in Africa to his expatiation
in Britain. Egonu, a remarkable, compassionate and very private
artist, has been described as "perhaps Africa's greatest modern
painter," one whose work challenges the impoverished Western myth
of the naive African artist. The complexity of Egonu's work is
firmly located within the tradition of modernism. What we see is a
judicious synthesis of visual languages developed from his critical
encounter with Western art and an informed awareness of his African
heritage; a synthesis which reaches beyond mere formalist concerns
to involve both the experience of his life in the West and the
painful turmoils of his country of origin, post-colonial Nigeria.
This monograph is a timely intervention in the prevailing debates
on the role, position and aesthetic concerns of the African artist
in the contemporary world, and offers a unique contribution to the
scarce literature on artists of African, Asian or Latin American
origin living in the West.
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