Maryam Jameelah and the Affective Economy of Islamic Revival

J. Howe
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This article uses Sara Ahmed’s concept of “affective economy” to explore the relationship between affect and gender in the transnational Islamic Revival in the 1960s and 1970s. It does so by examining the work of Maryam Jameelah (neé Margaret Marcus, 1934-2012), the American Jewish convert to Islam who moved to Pakistan in 1962 at the invitation of A’la Abul Mawdudi, the prominent revivalist leader and thinker. For her English-speaking audiences, Jameelah was a potent messenger for a revivalist ideology that aimed to reinvigorate an Islamic politics in opposition to Western capitalism and materialism. I argue that the affective economy of Jameelah’s writing help to explain the mobility of her ideas across national borders. Through affect, Jameelah’s writings produce a cumulative set of associations around female bodies that were intended to galvanize Muslim attachments to the umma and to draw absolute boundaries between Islam and the West.
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玛丽亚姆·贾米拉和伊斯兰复兴的情感经济
本文运用Sara Ahmed的“情感经济”概念,探讨20世纪六七十年代跨国伊斯兰复兴运动中情感与性别的关系。本书通过研究Maryam Jameelah (ne Margaret Marcus, 1934-2012)的作品来实现这一点。Maryam Jameelah是一位皈依伊斯兰教的美国犹太人,1962年应著名的复兴运动领袖和思想家A 'la Abul Mawdudi的邀请移居巴基斯坦。对于说英语的听众来说,贾米拉是复兴主义意识形态的有力使者,旨在重振伊斯兰政治,反对西方资本主义和物质主义。我认为,贾米拉作品的情感经济有助于解释她的思想跨越国界的流动性。通过情感,贾米拉的作品产生了一系列围绕女性身体的联想,旨在激发穆斯林对乌玛的依恋,并在伊斯兰和西方之间划清绝对的界限。
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