id
	12767
Url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/12767
Modèle de ressource
	Journal article
Classe de ressource
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Titre
	Islam and the body: Female fattening among Arabs in Niger
Sujet
	Arabs
	body
Editeur
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/25076
Date
	1999
Type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/8475
Identifiant
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117312328 Q117312328
	iwac-reference-0000267
Langue
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/8322
Résumé
	Is there a specifically Islamic vision of the body? Given the nuanced nature of cultural understandings of the body and Islam's own variable expressions, this question is probably unanswerable, and indeed poorly phrased. Phrased another way, however, the question of the relationship between Islam and the body becomes more interesting: how do bodily practices in different Muslim societies articulate with different versions of lived Islam? My research among Arabs in remote northwestern Niger on the aesthetic of corpulent female bodies, and the practice of forcefeeding young girls to achieve it, speaks to this issue.
Couverture spatiale
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/540
Liste des auteurs
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/1741
Première page
	5
Volume
	4

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