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It is not only the holy cities of Mecca and Karbala to which Muslim
pilgrims travel, but a wide variety of sacred sites around the
world. Journeys are undertaken to visit graves of important
historical and religious individuals, the tombs of saints, and
natural sites such as mountaintops and springs. Exploring the
richness and diversity of traditions practiced by the 1.5 billion
Muslims across the world, Sophia Rose Arjana provides a rigorous
theoretical discussion of pilgrimage, ritual practice and the
nature of sacred space in Islam, both historically and in the
present day. This all-encompassing survey covers issues such as
time, space, tourism, virtual pilgrimages and the use of computers
and smartphone apps. Lucidly written, informative and accessible,
it is perfectly suited to students, scholars and the general reader
seeking a comprehensive picture of the defining ritual of religious
pilgrimage in Islam.
From jewellery to meditation pillows to tourist retreats, religious
traditions – especially those of the East – are being
commodified as never before. Imitated and rebranded as ‘New
Age’ or ‘spiritual’, they are marketed to secular Westerners
as an answer to suffering in the modern world, the ‘mystical’
and ‘exotic’ East promising a path to enlightenment and inner
peace. In Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi, Sophia Rose Arjana examines
the appropriation and sale of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam in the
West today, the role of mysticism and Orientalism in the religious
marketplace, and how the commodification of religion impacts
people’s lives.
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Baby Names (Paperback)
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As I Grow (Paperback)
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White Fawn (Hardcover)
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Thomas Brennan knew his first hunt would be special, but when a
two-colored stag appears in the forest by his home, he quickly
realizes he cannot shoot the beautiful animal. Instead, the buck is
killed by Mr. Williams, the cruel landowner that employs Tom's
family. The piebald buck's death bothers Tom more than it should,
and soon bizarre things begin to happen: songbirds vanish, the
forest grows menacing, and Tom suddenly finds himself the sole
caretaker of a mysterious white fawn ...Clarisse Williams isn't
especially surprised when her father brings home a dead piebald
deer; as an avid hunter, he has exhibited a fondness for the
bizarre and unusual. However, Clarisse can't explain her own
fascination with the poor stag, or why nightmares wake her and lead
her outdoors in the middle of winter, or why her neighbor Tom
snoops around her barn at midnight ...Together, the children
attempt to protect their precious charge while hunting for
information. What links the piebald stag so closely to the forest?
What force stopped Tom from killing the buck? What draws Clarisse
to the piebald's smooth, straight antlers?What is the white fawn?
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White Fawn (Paperback)
Sophia Rose Volpi
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Thomas Brennan knew his first hunt would be special, but when a
two-colored stag appears in the forest by his home, he quickly
realizes he cannot shoot the beautiful animal. Instead, the buck is
killed by Mr. Williams, the cruel landowner that employs Tom's
family. The piebald buck's death bothers Tom more than it should,
and soon bizarre things begin to happen: songbirds vanish, the
forest grows menacing, and Tom suddenly finds himself the sole
caretaker of a mysterious white fawn ...Clarisse Williams isn't
especially surprised when her father brings home a dead piebald
deer; as an avid hunter, he has exhibited a fondness for the
bizarre and unusual. However, Clarisse can't explain her own
fascination with the poor stag, or why nightmares wake her and lead
her outdoors in the middle of winter, or why her neighbor Tom
snoops around her barn at midnight ...Together, the children
attempt to protect their precious charge while hunting for
information. What links the piebald stag so closely to the forest?
What force stopped Tom from killing the buck? What draws Clarisse
to the piebald's smooth, straight antlers?What is the white fawn?
This groundbreaking study examines Muslim female superheroes within
a matrix of Islamic theology, feminism, and contemporary political
discourse. Through a close reading of texts including Ms. Marvel,
Qahera, and The 99, Sophia Rose Arjana argues that these powerful
and iconic characters reflect independence and agency, reflecting
the diverse lives of Muslim girls and women in the world today.
This groundbreaking study examines Muslim female superheroes within
a matrix of Islamic theology, feminism, and contemporary political
discourse. Through a close reading of texts including Ms. Marvel,
Qahera, and The 99, Sophia Rose Arjana argues that these powerful
and iconic characters reflect independence and agency, reflecting
the diverse lives of Muslim girls and women in the world today.
Muslims in the Western Imagination explores the ways in which
Muslim men are depicted as monsters throughout history. Monsters
help a society delineate who belongs in a social group and who, or
what, is excluded. Even when Muslim monsters are symbolic, as in
post-9/11 zombie films, they still function to define Muslims as
non-human entities. These are not portrayals of Muslim men as
malevolent human characters, but rather as creatures that occupy
the imagination-non-humans that exhibit their wickedness outwardly
on the skin. They populate medieval tales, Renaissance paintings,
Shakespearean dramas, Gothic horror novels, and Hollywood films.
Through an exhaustive survey of medieval, early modern, and
contemporary literature, art, and cinema, Sophia Rose Arjana
examines the dehumanizing ways in which Muslim men have been
constructed and represented as monsters, and the impact such
representations have on perceptions of Muslims. The study is the
first to present a Foucauldian genealogy of these creatures, from
the demons and giants of the Middle Ages to the hunchbacks with
filed teeth that appeared in the 2006 film 300. The book argues
that constructions of Muslim monsters constitute a recurring theme,
first formulated in medieval Christian anti-Semitism. Arjana shows
how Muslim monsters are often related to Jewish monsters, and more
broadly to Christian anti-Semitism, which involves both religious
bigotry and fears surrounding bodily differences. Like the Jewish
monster, the Muslim monster is not simply a product of religious
bigotry, but of anxiety surrounding bodily difference. Overall,
Arjana argues persuasively, these dehumanizing constructions deeply
embedded in Western consciousness are internalized beliefs and
practices that contribute to the culture of violence-both
rhetorical and bodily- against Muslims.
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