Wailing for the Dead: The Role of Women in Early Islamic Funerals

Halevi, Leor

doi:10.1093/past/183.1.3

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“…project of shaping collective memories and building an ideology of praxis." 7 The dynamics of this process echo in the texts of the classical Tafsir.…”

Section: The Qur } a N And Historymentioning

confidence: 91%

The Women's Bay‘a in Qur’ān and *Sira**

Stowasser

2009

The Muslim World

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“…project of shaping collective memories and building an ideology of praxis." 7 The dynamics of this process echo in the texts of the classical Tafsir.…”

Section: The Qur } a N And Historymentioning

confidence: 91%

The Women's Bay‘a in Qur’ān and *Sira**

Stowasser

2009

The Muslim World

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“…By summoning their Jewish subjects, devout Arabs could obey the Islamic injunction against women's wailing by those of their confession (Halevi 2004) 12 and pass on the task of bka mainly to Jewish men. Indeed, my respondents noted that Yemenite-Arab women also raised their voices in lament on occasion.…”

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‘Here's your dinner, Jews’: Yemenite-Jewish lamentation in Israel as a commemoration of shame

Gamliel

2013

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A covert reason for the decline of ritual wailing among Yemenite-Jewish women in Israel is the community's memory of its stay in Yemen as a period of 'exile' manifested in dhimmi status. According to respondents' oral history, Jewish lamentation was exploited by members of the majority Muslim population to compel Jewsmostly mento wail in honor of Muslim dead. The article makes its main contribution by revealing this historical episode and analyzing the standing of women's lamentation in the context of religiopolitical tension. The respondents' narrative reveals that although the wailers mitigated the humiliating effects of this spectacle, the appropriation of their community custom impaired Jewish men's gender status and ability to perform religious differentiation. This, coupled with changes caused by their relocation to Israel, has made women's lament the commemoration of a practice that evokes shame among members of this community, abetting its decline in the past decade.

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