Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East

by Bowen, Donna Lee; Early, Evelyn A.; Bowen, Donna Lee

• ISBN13: 9780253207791
• ISBN10: 0253207797
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-11-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Note On Transliteration	xv
Introduction	1	(12)
Part I Generations and Life Passages
Introduction	13	(4)
Traditional Songs from Boir Ahmad	17	(6)
Erika Friedl
Growing Up in Morocco	23	(11)
Susan Schaefer Davis
Children and War	34	(4)
Louise Berdal
Memoirs of a Street Tough	38	(9)
Yusuf Abu Haggag
Everett K. Rowson
``Of the Dust and the Wind'': Arranged Marriage in Afghanistan	47	(10)
Margaret A. Mills
The Son's Return	57	(6)
Driss Chraibi
The Funeral	63	(18)
Driss Chraibi
Part II Gender Relations
Introduction	77	(4)
Women and Sex	81	(3)
Nawal El Saadawi
Donna Lee Bowen
Dilemmas of Adolescence: Courtship, Sex, and Marriage in a Moroccan Town	84	(7)
Douglas A. Davis
Susan Schaefer Davis
Pragmatic Morality: Islam and Family Planning in Morocco	91	(11)
Donna Lee Bowen
Fertility and Fate: Medical Practices among Baladi Women of Cairo	102	(7)
Evelyn A. Early
Personal Status Law in Sudan	109	(10)
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
The Veiled Revolution	119	(9)
Elizabeth W. Fernea
Part III Home, Community, and Work
Introduction	125	(3)
Rites of Hospitality and Aesthetics	128	(8)
Aida S. Kanafani
The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid	136
Tayeb Salih
The Nasiriyya Brotherhood of Southern Morocco	146	(157)
James A. Miller
Donna Lee Bowen
Lying, Honor, and Contradiction	157	(13)
Michael Gilsenan
Editing al-Fajr: A Palestinian Newspaper in Jerusalem	170	(5)
Bishara Bahbah
Hajj Nejm's Cures and Tales	175	(3)
Abdel-Salam Al Ujaili
Evelyn A. Early
Islam and Hajj Brahim's World	178	(4)
John Waterbury
Suqs of the Middle East: Commercial Centers Past and Present	182	(28)
Robert Fernea
Part IV Popular Expression of Religion
Introduction	205	(5)
Selections from the Quran Translated	210	(3)
Juan E. Campo
The Sound of the Divine in Daily Life	213	(5)
Kristina Nelson
Abu Illya and Zakat	218	(4)
Donna Lee Bowen
An American Woman on the Hajj	222	(8)
Michael E. Jansen
Sayyida Zainab: The Chosen of Bani Hashim	230	(4)
Muhammad Fahmi Abdal-Wahab
Evelyn A. Early
New Year's Day at Ali's Shrine	234	(5)
Robert L. Canfield
Women and Shrines in Shiraz	239	(15)
Anne H. Betteridge
Part V Performance and Entertainment
Introduction	251	(3)
Humor: The Two-Edged Sword	254	(10)
Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot
Darid Laham: Political Satirist as Modern Storyteller	264	(7)
Evelyn A. Early
``To Mount at-Tiyal He Declared'': Some Poetry from the Yemeni Civil War	271	(5)
Steven C. Caton
Entertainment in the Marketplace	276	(5)
Philip D. Schuyler
Sad Songs of the Western Desert	281	(6)
Lila Abu-Lughod
A Folk Revival in Morocco	287	(8)
Philip D. Schuyler
Glossary	295	(10)
Selected Readings	305	(8)
Notes On Contributors	313	(4)
Index	317