The Dread Heights: Tribulation and Refuge After the Syrian Revolution - Couverture souple

Iqbal, Basit Kareem

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1531510329 ISBN 13 : 9781531510329

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Muslim charities and community organizations have assumed a significant role in refugee support since the Syrian catastrophe: in Jordan and Canada, as elsewhere, they deliver food aid, house orphans, and organize remedial education. But Islam is more than just a resource for humanitarian projects. The Dread Heights details how the Islamic tradition guides refugees, relief workers, and religious scholars in a world of brutal sieges and mass displacement. Through an ethnography of religious imagination and theological argumentation, Iqbal demonstrates what is at stake beyond secular frames for migration and relief. Even as refugees become objects of humanitarian concern suspended between national orders, The Dread Heights brings another suspension into view: a form of life whose gestures are illuminated by the Quranic figure of the Heights. Iqbal’s ethnography pursues an unsentimental lucidity across the search for refuge, the trials of creational existence, and the ultimately enigmatic divine decree. In the shadow of war, beyond humanitarian order, Islam offers an orientation to the devastation of the present.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Basit Kareem Iqbal is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at McMaster University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1531510329
• ISBN 13: 9781531510329
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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• Personne responsable: non disponible