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Title |
Title of document |
Doing Piety through Care: Embodied Enactments of the Qur’an and Gender Perceptions in Muslim families in Contemporary Denmark - Gender and Sacred Textures |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Abir Mohamad Ismail |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Religious Studies; Gender Studies |
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Keyword(s) |
Qur’an; self-cultivation; Embodiment; Performativity; care; gender |
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Subject classification |
religious texts |
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Description |
Abstract |
This chapter takes the practice of elderly care as a starting place to discuss how Muslim men and women “do” piety when doing elderly care in their everyday lives. It introduces and analyses central passages in the Qur’an and the Ḥadīths that deal with birr-al- wālidayn (filial piety), ‘awra (the intimate body parts that must be covered), and ‘ayb (shame/shamefulness) since they all appear as central concepts in the Islamic tradition of elderly care. With a focus on the embodied enactment of these concepts, the article turns to the analysis of two ethnographic cases to look at how Muslims “do” care for their elderly parents and at the same time strive to embody their sacred text, the Qur’an, and the Ḥadīths in everyday life. The article aims to show that “doing” elderly care enables a domain of pious doings that matters to how Muslim men and women perform and understand gender. |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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15-Sep-2025 |
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Type |
Status & genre |
Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/46466 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.46466 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Gender and Sacred Textures |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Coverage |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |