AMES Public Seminar: Dr Walaa Quisay – Dying to Live: Islam, Incarceration, and Hunger Strikes
| Dates: | 16 October 2024 |
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| Times: | 16:30 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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The Department of Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), University of Manchester warmly invites you to this event: Part of the AMES Research Seminar Series 2024 – Living, Reconstructing and Re-imagining political and cultural landscapes of the Middle East.
AMES Public Seminar: Dr Walaa Quisay (University of Edinburgh) – Dying to Live: Islam, Incarceration, and Hunger Strikes
Political incarceration increasingly becomes a systemic method to quell dissent. In my talk, I explain how the body of the prisoner becomes a site of religious contestation between carceral regimes and the prisoner. When the prisoner initiates a hunger strike, the body becomes the site of a war of attrition. I draw from ethnographic accounts of hunger strikes in different carceral contexts – namely the United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia – and the jurisprudential opinion of Muslim scholars to examine the question of the permissibility of hunger strikes in Islam. This assumes a dual source of authority – the jurisprudential authority of religious scholars and the experiential authority of hunger strikers. I pose the overarching question: in what ways does the perception of prisons and modern carceral states transform fatw? production? This approach thus highlights jurisprudential understandings and the political formations that lead to fatw? production.
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