Faithful Transformations ? Islamic Self?Help in Contemporary Singapore
Islamic Self-Help in Contemporary Singapore
Series: Dissident Feminisms;
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Product details:
- Edition number First Edition
- Publisher MO ? University of Illinois Press
- Date of Publication 8 July 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780252046612
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 229x152x15 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 chart 700
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Malay Muslim women in Singapore cultivate piety by attending popular Islamic self-help classes. Nurhaizatul Jamil’s ethnographic study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of this phenomenon.
The Islamic self-help classes in this book exist at the nexus of sacred texts, aphorisms, and social media engagements, scaffolded by the neoliberal economy that shapes idealized Muslim subjectivities. Within a context whereby the Singapore state discursively frames Malayness in terms of cultural deficiency, Malay Muslim women’s inward focus on transformative ethics rather than societal change underscores the appeal of gendered pious self-help discourses. At the same time, Jamil’s referencing of Black, Indigenous, and Ethnic studies offers a compelling analytical frame that places affective transformation within the context of racial capitalism, historical trauma, and embodied healing.
A provocative and rich ethnography, Faithful Transformations tells the stories of Malay Muslim women desiring piety and self-improvement as minoritized subjects in contemporary Singapore while exploring the limitations of self-care.
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