o:id
	12767
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/12767
o:resource_template
	Journal article
o:resource_class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
dcterms:title
	Islam and the body: Female fattening among Arabs in Niger
dcterms:subject
	Arabs
	body
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25076
dcterms:date
	1999
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8475
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117312328 Q117312328
	iwac-reference-0000267
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:abstract
	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.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/540
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1741
bibo:pageStart
	5
bibo:volume
	4

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