Modalities of Everyday Resistance: Faith and Halal Matchmaking in Shelina Janmohamed’s Love in a Headscarf

This article examines how faith manifests itself as a modality of everyday resistance in Shelina Janmohamed’s Love in a Headscarf (2010). Drawing on Braidotti’s perception of deriving residual spirituality in critical theory (2008) and critical theories on everyday resistance (Scott 1985, Abu-Lughod...

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Authors: Poozhikkal, Sumayya (Author) ; Kunhi, Zeenath Mohamed (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2025
In: Hawwa
Year: 2025, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 322-341
Further subjects:B halal matchmaking
B diasporic writings by Muslim women
B Faith
B everyday resistance
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