Islam and Visual Culture: Sharia Implementation and Cinema as Visual Management in Nigeria

Ibrahim, Musa

doi:10.1017/asr.2019.88

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“…The work of Ibrahim (2020) on Sharia implementation and (visual) media discourses suggests that among the Muslim communities of Nigeria, "short films circulated through YouTube and social media" allow audiences to engage more with cultural and faith-based narratives compared to traditional forms of religious knowledge production such as inperson sermons. Similarly, Cornet (2021) analysed Islamist-produced popular culture in Egypt, finding that cinema was produced by a youth group specifically for social media consumption and with the aim of claiming "an Islamic space in Egyptian popular culture" (Cornet 2021, p. 60).…”

Section: Social Media Cinema and Educationmentioning

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Unpacking Films That Educate: Insta-Explorations of Religion and Society in South Asian and World Cinema

Fatima

2023

Religions

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With the increased availability of streaming services and access to international content a feature of today’s media consumption, can social media be used to explore the potential of global cinema to inform audiences about religion and society? As a media form, movies play a role in educating as well as entertaining society at large; narrative arcs from Bollywood, Hollywood, and beyond inform audiences about contemporary religious concepts. This research makes use of a practice-based journalistic methodology to explore the educative role movies can play in informing audiences about religious and societal concepts; the researcher produces a creative artefact appropriate for the discipline of journalism (in this instance, a social-media-based curated collection of movie reviews), with a contribution to the wider knowledge that is contextualised by this study. Using a deductive approach, the researcher narrows down an initial list of films, from a global selection of cinematic output, that covers religious and societal themes through a range of lenses (such as characters’ well-being, trauma, religious practice, and cultural values). The concepts and ideologies explored through this study and the construction of a social-media-based movie database suggest that cinema can play an active role in informing audiences about religion and society, instead of merely entertaining across cultures. The concepts and ideologies explored in this paper, through the construction of a social-media-based movie database, show that religious and societal issues in movies can be an important aspect of the lives of millions in the cinema-going audience.

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Section: Social Media Cinema and Educationmentioning

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Unpacking Films That Educate: Insta-Explorations of Religion and Society in South Asian and World Cinema

Fatima

2023

Religions

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“…For instance, some Sufi clerics I interviewed mentioned that they were actively part of the sharia renewal project until the Salafis among them 'hijacked the process with their Wahhabi-ization agenda', allegedly funded by the Saudi government. 26 This disagreement created competition between Salafi and Sufi groups over the supervision of sharia implementation, which provoked some pro-sharia governors to start sharing political appointments to head those institutions among different Sunni rival groups in the interests of maintaining peace and stability (Ibrahim 2020).…”

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Sunni and Shia Muslim and Christian encounters in northern Nigeria

Ibrahim

2022

Africa

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This article analyses how the circulation of ideas and hybrid rituals between Shia Muslims and Christians reveals a much more intentional political process whereby minority religious groups consciously create shared experiences and a sense of commonality in the face of political marginalization in northern Nigeria. One example is the Shia invention of Jesus’s Mawlid (Jesus’s birthday), which they perform in a different way from the conventional Christmas but that is attended by some Christians. Also, some Christians participate in the annual celebration of Mawlid al-Nabiy (the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday), organized by Shias. Despite the adherents of the two religions participating in mixed religious practices, they continue to see themselves separately as Muslims and Christians. Reactions to these hybrid rituals impact relationships among the mainline Sunni groups. Sufis (Tijanis and Qadiris), who were previously united in the face of the anti-Sufi reform movement (Izala), now diverge over how to respond to Shia Islam. While they disagree with Shias intellectually, not everyone supports the attacks against Shias by Salafi activists. These dynamics add to the understanding that the concept of ‘tolerance’ is not sophisticated enough to capture all forms of religious coexistence in Nigeria.

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Being Muslim at the Intersection of Islam and Popular Cultures in Nigeria

Ibrahim

2022

Journal of African Cultural Studies

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Islam and Visual Culture: Sharia Implementation and Cinema as Visual Management in Nigeria

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

Unpacking Films That Educate: Insta-Explorations of Religion and Society in South Asian and World Cinema

Unpacking Films That Educate: Insta-Explorations of Religion and Society in South Asian and World Cinema

Sunni and Shia Muslim and Christian encounters in northern Nigeria

Being Muslim at the Intersection of Islam and Popular Cultures in Nigeria

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