Blurring boundaries: aesthetics, performance, and the transformation of Islamic leadership

This article demonstrates the importance of performance - and in particular performances that blur boundaries between aesthetical styles - to the emergence and impact of 'new religious intellectuals', a group that radically transformed Islamic leadership in the twentieth century and were i...

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Main Author: Kalmbach, Hilary (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2015]
In: Culture and religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 160-174
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Egypt / Islam / Intellectual / Religious leader / Performativity (Cultural sciences) / Clothing / Aesthetics / History 1900-2000
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AE Psychology of religion
BJ Islam
KBL Near East and North Africa
TJ Modern history
TK Recent history
Online Access: Volltext (doi)