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DOI	10.1163/15692086-12341256
	Discourses on and Realities of the life of Canines among Arabs and Muslims
	Sonbol, Amira
通讯作者	Sonbol, A
来源期刊	HAWWA
ISSN	1569-2078
EISSN	1569-2086
出版年	2014
卷号	12 期号:1 页码:101-120
英文摘要	This paper is about the power of representation; it takes as specific focus an animal who has been made out to represent all that is impure in Islamic discourses. Not only are dogs regarded as unclean animals, but their entry into a person's home has been described to be a cause for refusal of angels to enter that home. In other words, good Muslims have to stay away from them. This is odd when the actual history and life of dogs among Arabs is studied, for without dogs Arab merchants trekking over long desert route and peaceful sleeping peasantry all over the Islamic world could not have been protected from attackers, thieves and evil-doers except for vigilant dogs attached to the people involved. Moreover, it is a clear contradiction that the representation of dogs as unclean animals is mostly based on fiqh when in fact the Holy Qur'an has honored the dog in Surat al-Kahf. This paper will discuss these contradictions and discuss the actual place of the dog in Islamic and Arab history and contemporary life to illustrate the contradictions between representation and reality. While this article is not about gender, it is closely related to moral discourses involving women and canines. It is perhaps not coincidental that the last thirty years have seen the anti-dog discourse reach such momentum at the same time as the call for the niqab and the seclusion of women; it is the same voices and groups that seem to espouse both, being conservatively dressed, religiously inclined and observant, and dog-hating seem to go together.
英文关键词	Surat al-Kahf Bedouin dogs angels Kitab al-Hayawan Al-Damiri Al-Jahiz Imam Malik farra-diyya
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000217960900005
WOS类目	Humanities, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Arts & Humanities - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/330767
作者单位	[Sonbol, Amira] Georgetown Univ, Washington, DC 20057 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sonbol, Amira. Discourses on and Realities of the life of Canines among Arabs and Muslims[J],2014,12(1):101-120.
APA	Sonbol, Amira.(2014).Discourses on and Realities of the life of Canines among Arabs and Muslims.HAWWA,12(1),101-120.
MLA	Sonbol, Amira."Discourses on and Realities of the life of Canines among Arabs and Muslims".HAWWA 12.1(2014):101-120.

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