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Getting God's Ear : Women, Islam, and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf by Eleanor Abdella Doumato (2000, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherColumbia University Press
ISBN-100231116675
ISBN-139780231116671
eBay Product ID (ePID)1178759
Product Key Features
Number of Pages498 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameGetting God's Ear : Women, Islam, and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf
SubjectSociology / General, General, Islam / General, Women's Studies, Middle East / Arabian Peninsula, Gender & the Law, Middle East / General
Publication Year2000
TypeTextbook
AuthorEleanor Abdella Doumato
Subject AreaLaw, Religion, Social Science, History
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight17.8 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number2
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN99-035113
ReviewsDoumato...has commendably brought together historical sources of true significance for the history of Arabia, and specifically for women's medical practices and spiritual rituals...[T]his book provides rich substantive information that significantly advances understanding of social life in the Arabian peninsula for the time period under review., A valuable contribution to understanding the religious experiences of Muslim women in the Arabian peninsula and the Gulf., By exploring the gendered dimensions of Wahhabi discourses and practices during the revival, Doumato brings the question of gender into an historical space and time rarely explored., "A valuable contribution to understanding the religious experiences of Muslim women in the Arabian peninsula and the Gulf." -- Religious Studies Review, "By exploring the gendered dimensions of Wahhabi discourses and practices during the revival, Doumato brings the question of gender into an historical space and time rarely explored." -- Arab Studies Journal, "Doumato...has commendably brought together historical sources of true significance for the history of Arabia, and specifically for women's medical practices and spiritual rituals...[T]his book provides rich substantive information that significantly advances understanding of social life in the Arabian peninsula for the time period under review." -- Middle East Journal
Dewey Edition21
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal305.4209538
Table Of Content1. Women and Religious Learning: Piety and a Matter of Propriety 2. Prayer, the Mosque, and the Ways Women Worship 3. The Healing Power of Words: Ink, Spit, and Holy Speech 4. Engaging Spirits: Prophylaxis, Witchcraft, Exorcisms, Trial by Ordeal, and Zar 5. When Words Fail: Surgeries, Smells, and Salt Packing, Community, Gender, and the Spiritual Experience: Some Conclusions
SynopsisA detailed study of the role of religious worship and spiritual affairs in women's lives in the twentieth-century Arab world., The circumscribed role of women in orthodox religious societies has long intrigued scholars and general readers alike. How these roles evolved and how women today reconcile feminism with traditional religious practice is a subject of controversy both within the academy and in religious communities. Getting God's Ear considers this subject by examining the role of religious worship and spiritual affairs in women's lives in the twentieth-century Arab world. The meaning of women's exclusion from the "sacred precincts" of the mosque and their limited access to religious learning--as well as the effects of this exclusion on women's lives--is the focus of the book. Exploring both their role as midwives, healers, and ritual participants in spite of such exclusion, Eleanor Doumato examines the ways women strive for agency and sacralize their own space in an effort to experience community, to heal and be healed, and to find ways of getting God to hear them. Focusing on the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula region during the first half of the twentieth century, the book weighs the influence of Wahhabi Islam on women's religious experience against the experience of women in the Sunni and Shia towns of Kuwait and Bahrain. At the same time, the author incorporates the voices of American missionaries and others who wrote about women of this region and whose writings form the informational core of the book. Connecting doctrine and practice in pre-oil Arabia to current sociopolitical developments, she raises an intriguing question: Is there something in the historical experience of women under Wahhabi Islam that can help us understand the persistence of women's separation in Saudi Arabia today?
LC Classification NumberHQ1730.D68 2000
