Alef Is for Allah

Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies

• Author(s): Jamal J. Elias,
• Publisher: Univ of California Press
• Pages: 280
• ISBN_10: 0520290070
  ISBN_13: 9780520290075
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / Art & Politics , Art / Middle Eastern , Education / Arts in Education , Psychology / Developmental / Child , Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition , Psychology / Emotions , Religion / General , Religion / Islam / General , Social Science / Customs & Traditions , Social Science / Children's Studies , Social Science / Islamic Studies , Social Science / Media Studies ,

Description:... 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.