Volume 2, Issue 3 | Contemporary Islam

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Volume 2, Issue 3

December 2008

Creating an Islamic cultural sphere: contested notions of art, leisure and entertainment

Issue Editor:

Karin van Nieuwkerk

7 articles in this issue

Creating an Islamic cultural sphere: contested notions of art, leisure and entertainment. An Introduction
Karin van Nieuwkerk
OriginalPaper Open access 15 November 2008 Pages: 169 - 176
Creative compromise: Syrian television makers between Secularism and Islamism
Christa Salamandra
OriginalPaper 09 November 2008 Pages: 177 - 189
‘Repentant’ artists in Egypt: debating gender, performing arts and religion
Karin van Nieuwkerk
OriginalPaper Open access 19 November 2008 Pages: 191 - 210
Battling over the public sphere: Islamic reactions to the music of today
Jonas Otterbeck
OriginalPaper 01 November 2008 Pages: 211 - 228
Heavy metal Muslims: the rise of a post-Islamist public sphere
Mark LeVine
OriginalPaper 19 November 2008 Pages: 229 - 249
Boredom and despair in rural Egypt
Samuli Schielke
OriginalPaper 08 November 2008 Pages: 251 - 270
Playing with spirituality: the adoption of mulid motifs in Egyptian dance music
Jennifer Peterson
OriginalPaper 27 November 2008 Pages: 271 - 295