Kamal Salhi University of Leeds
Emerging from an international network project funded by the British
Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Economics and Social
Research Council, and research collaboration between academics and
practitioners,
Performing Islam is the first peer-reviewed
interdisciplinary journal about Islam and performance and their related
aesthetics. It focuses on socio-cultural as well as the historical and
political contexts of artistic practices in the Muslim world. The
journal covers dance, ritual, theatre, performing arts, visual arts and
cultures, and popular entertainment in Islam-influenced societies and
their diasporas. It promotes insightful research of performative
expressions of Islam by performers and publics, and encompasses
theoretical debates, empirical studies, postgraduate research,
interviews with performers, research notes and queries, and reviews of
books, conferences, festivals, events and performances.
In Memory of Mohammed Arkoun 1928–2010
Suluk Wujil and Javanese Performance Theory
Ambivalences of piety: Gendered identities of Egyptian women in performance
The politics of performance and the creation of
South Asian music in Britain: Identities, transnational cosmopolitanism
and the public sphere
Sacred pleasure, pain and transformation in African Indian Sidi Sufi ritual and performance
British Muslim Converts Performing 'Authentic Muslimness'
Yassavi zikr in twenty-first century Central Asia: sound, place and authenticity
Interview with Raja (Radio DJ), Walsall, Birmingham (18 April 2010)
Performing dhikr above a nightclub: the interplay of commerce and spirituality at the Fez Festival of Sufi Culture