Body situations mirroring belief attitudes:

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" Body situations mirroring belief attitudes: "
Nayawiyyah U. Muhammad S. Pandya

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1103849
Doc. No	:	TLpq1449379052
Main Entry	:	Nayawiyyah U. Muhammad
	:	S. Pandya
Title & Author	:	Body situations mirroring belief attitudes:\ Nayawiyyah U. MuhammadS. Pandya
College	:	California State University, Long Beach
Date	:	2013
student score	:	2013
Degree	:	M.A.
Page No	:	133
Abstract	:	This research looks at the connection between the Islamic purity system (taharah ), Islamic rituals, and women in Muslim societies. The goal of this thesis is a critical analysis of the taharah system concerning female bodies and as applied in the performance of Islamic rituals. I argue that the rules and "rulings" for ritual purity in Islam reflect attitudes held by some Muslim male exegetes and scholars. Furthermore, I hypothesize that the taharah system corresponds to the Fall from Eden, and rules concerning women reflect belief attitudes which have influenced the perception of the female body and then been imposed upon Islamic rituals. This subject is approached using gender analysis, textual exegesis, historical and phenomenological methodologies. Relying upon close readings of Qur'an and hadith literature, I will also employ feminist interpretations while applying the socio-anthropological lens of Mary Douglas, Brannon Wheeler and others.
Subject	:	Gender studies
	:	Islamic Studies
	:	Social sciences
	:	Taharah
	:	Womens studies
	:	Womens studies