Ayang Utriza Yakin / Adis Duderija /
An Van Raemdonck (Editors)
Shame, Modesty, and Honor in Islam.
London: Bloomsbury 2025, 272 pp., index
ISBN 9781350386143
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Description
With a particular emphasis on definitions, continuities, and change, this edited volume examines the historical role and function of haya‘ – or feelings of shame, modesty, and honor – in Islamic theology and law, and explores contemporary Muslims‘ engagements with the concept. The book explores various conceptions of haya‘ and the practices associated with the concept in both Muslim majority and minority contexts.
The empirically rich contributions reveal how haya‘ is socially constructed in varying social and cultural environments across the globe. From medieval Islam to the modern day, this book demonstrates the importance of haya‘ and its temporal and spatial transformations.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
List of abbreviations
Note on Transliteration
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Examining the Concept of Haya?:
Interpretations of Shame, Modesty, and Honor in Islam
Ayang Utriza Yakin (UCLouvain, Belgium), Adis Duderija (Griffith University, Australia),
and An Van Raemdonck (Ghent University, Belgium)
I. Shame, Modesty, and Honor in Islam: Reflections on Various Conceptualizations
1.Shame and Murû’a in Medieval Islam,
Danilo Marino (BGMSC, Freie University, Germany)
2. Overcoming the Conceptual link between Patriarchal Honor
and Female Modesty Laws in the Islamic Interpretive Tradition
Adis Duderija (Griffith University, Australia)
3. The Visible and Invisible Kaleidoscope of haya?: Theologies and Mystics of Modesty
in the Persianate world (10th-17th centuries)
Amelie Neuve-Eglise (INALCO, France)
II. Shame, Modesty, and Honor in Islamic Environments
4. Understanding Shame and Modesty in the context of Muslim Marriage Narratives
of Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan
An Van Raemdonck (Ghent University, Belgium)
5. Shame, Exile, and Muslim Masculinity among the Bellah Refugees
from Mali in Niger
Souleymane Diallo (University of Munster, Germany)
6. The Ultimate Vindication of Honour: Carok, Shame, and Islam in Madura, Indonesia
Yanwar Pribadi (Islamic International University of Indonesia, Indonesia)
7. Islam, Modesty, and Dignity in Malaysia
Muhamad Ali (University of California Riverside, USA)
8. Fashion, Clothing, and Modesty in Republican Turkey
Alberto Fabio Ambrosio (Luxembourg School of Religion & Society, Luxembourg)
9. Heshima and Sexuality beyond Marriage: Gendered Interpretations of Morality in Zanzibar
Marloes Hamelink (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
III. Shame, Modesty, and Honor in Islam in Minority Context
10. Coping with Honor, Shame, and Modesty:
Muslims Undergoing Biomedical Treatments in Italy
Federica Sona (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
11. Between Family and Friends: Shame, Honor, and the Politics of Eating and Drinking
Among South Asian British Muslims,
John Lever (University of Huddersfield) and Irem Ozgoren Kinli (Izmir Kâtip Çelebi University)
12. Modesty and Malay/Muslim Women in Singapore: The Impact of Traditionalism and Revivalism
Norshahril Saat and Nur Syafiqah Mohd Taufek (NUS, Singapore)
13. Evolving Islamic Modesty in China: Confucianism, Arabization, & Sinicization
Wai-Yip Ho (Education University of Hong Kong, China)
14. The Headscarf and Modesty in Multicultural Aotearoa New Zealand: A Post Christchurch Attack Story
Eva F. Nisa (Australian National University, Australia)
Bibliography
Index
