‘Destiny is written by God’: Islamic predestination, responsibility, and transcendence in Central Morocco

Menin, Laura

doi:10.1111/1467-9655.13312

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“…By zooming in on instances of 'failure' to live up to Islamic ideals, we follow Kloos and Beekers who propose to focus on people's 'experiences of moral instability, fragmentation or ambivalence on the one hand and their attempts to achieve a level of moral coherence groun-14 ṣabbār in Modern Standard Arabic. 15 Also see Menin (2020), who similarly points to the intentionality in the ways a revivalist Islam inspired Moroccan woman shapes her relationship with God by taking a stance of having one's own responsibility to work towards God's will.…”

Section: Studying Emergent and Maturing Hajj Storiesmentioning

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Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca

Buitelaar,

van Leeuwen

2023

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for their interest, support and valuable feedback at various stages of the research. It is a great honour that Simon accepted the invitation to write the epilogue to the book.The researchers in subproject ii and iii have learned incredibly much from all research participants in Morocco and the Netherlands. If it were not for your commitment to sharing your experiences and knowledge about the pilgrimage to Mecca, much of the project's results would not have been realized. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your trust and will continue to treasure the stories you shared with us as precious gifts. We would like to express our gratitude also to Hanina Ajarai, Hanan Nhass and Mohamed Bouza for bringing us in touch with pilgrims who were willing to tell us about their pilgrimage experiences and for helping us refine the interview questions for the Dutch subproject. In addition, Hanina conducted invaluable interviews with elderly Moroccan-Dutch pilgrims, while Hanan has been of great help in knowledge dissemination about the project's results for a wider public through the online platform kis. It was equally wonderful to work with Said el-Amraoui of Hadjinfo and Rixt Hulshoff Pol of the Tropenmuseum for two knowledge dissemination events at the Tropenmuseum. Thank you both so much. We are also most grateful to Dik Kootstra of the Groningen Scholierenacademie and Lilian Eggens of UptoUs for developing for us teaching kits on pilgrimage for high school and secondary vocational education students.University policies on 'research-driven' education tend to focus on the added value of integrating our research projects in the courses we teach. We have found that vice versa, our research has benefited tremendously from the contributions of the students Lisa de Lang, Querien Mangel, and Gijs Wijers, who participated in the project for their ma thesis research. The discussions with them, as those with the student assistants Bas Sprenger de Rover, who interviewed managers at hajj travel agencies for us, and Lyset de Groot and Kjelda Glimmerveen, who not only meticulously transcribed the interviews for the Dutch subproject but also shared their reflections on the content of the interviews, were both very enjoyable and productive.Last but not least, we would like to thank forrest kentwell and Iris Vartinianvan der Heide for text-and copy editing the manuscript, Pierke Bosschieter for creating an excellent index and the two anonymous reviewers for critically scrutinizing the manuscript and providing valuable feedback. Obviously, any errors that have remained in the text are there despite Iris' and forrest's professional help, and the editors are fully responsible for them.

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Section: Studying Emergent and Maturing Hajj Storiesmentioning

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Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca

Buitelaar,

van Leeuwen

2023

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“…Divorces after a wedding may be even more problematic for the woman due to a premium on women's virginity in conservative cultures. Divorces are generally stigmatized in Saudi Arabia and avoided, similar to other countries [25,42,50]. This work focuses on the potential role of technology during the irst two steps, the proposal and social engagement.…”

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Saudi Arabian Parents' Perception of Online Marital Matchmaking Technologies

Al-Dawood

Alhajhussein²,

Yarosh

2021

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Finding a date or a spouse online is usually considered an individualistic endeavor in Western cultures. This presents a challenge for collectivist non-Western cultures such as Saudi Arabia where choosing a spouse is viewed as a union of two families with parents of both spouses being heavily involved. Our work aims to investigate how Saudi Arabian parents view the utilization of technology by their young adults to seek potential spouses online. We report our findings of interviews conducted with 16 Saudi Arabian parents (8 fathers, 6 mothers and 1 couple). We generate qualitative themes that provide insights about how parents wanted to preserve their values, integrate technology into the traditional process and protect their young adults from potential harms. These themes lead to implications for designing suitable marital matchmaking technologies in Saudi Arabia and opportunities for future work.

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“…My interest in my interlocutors’ religious pursuits and sabar does not privilege a ‘disciplinary’ analytic and nor do I, in tracing their lapses or shifts over time, take an ‘everyday Islam’ approach (Fadil & Fernando 2015; Schielke 2015 a ). Rather, following Menin's call for placing the ‘everyday and the transcendent’ (2020: 517) in the same conceptual frame, I attend to how the notion of sabar inflects the ordinary tasks of domestic life. Chance events and contingencies take on deeper meaning as my interlocutors reflect on their marriage.…”

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The work of time: personhood, agency, and the negotiation of difference in married life in urban Pakistan

Maqsood

2023

Royal Anthropological Inst

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What is the work of time on a marriage, and how does it transform people as they struggle to change and leave traces on others? Through reflections of middle‐class women in Pakistan who married men who did not share their religious aspirations, I focus on how difference is negotiated and conceived in these marriages, and on the unexpected outcomes in the religious outlook of both spouses. The work of time, articulated through the concept of sabar (forbearance), emerges here as a canvas for a confluence of human and nonhuman interventions, influences, and motivations, urging us to think of individual agency neither as autonomous action, as theorized in the liberal tradition, nor as wilful submission, as elaborated in Islamic contexts. Rather, agency, the capacity to assert one's own visions and hopes, depends on the malleability and openness of persons to time, leaving those who desire change in others equally exposed to transformation.

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‘Destiny is written by God’: Islamic predestination, responsibility, and transcendence in Central Morocco

Cited by 5 publications

References 43 publications

Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca

Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca

Saudi Arabian Parents' Perception of Online Marital Matchmaking Technologies

The work of time: personhood, agency, and the negotiation of difference in married life in urban Pakistan

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