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SUMMARY:AMES Public Seminar: Dr Walaa Quisay – Dying to Live: Islam\, Inc
 arceration\, and Hunger Strikes
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DESCRIPTION:The Department of Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)\, Un
 iversity of Manchester warmly invites you to this event: Part of the AME
 S Research Seminar Series 2024 – Living\, Reconstructing and Re-imaginin
 g political and cultural landscapes of the Middle East.\n\nAMES Public S
 eminar: Dr Walaa Quisay (University of Edinburgh) – Dying to Live: Islam
 \, Incarceration\, and Hunger Strikes\n\nPolitical incarceration increas
 ingly becomes a systemic method to quell dissent. In my talk\, I explain
  how the body of the prisoner becomes a site of religious contestation b
 etween 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 conte
 xts – namely the United States\, Egypt\, United Arab Emirates\, and Saud
 i Arabia – and the jurisprudential opinion of Muslim scholars to examine
  the question of the permissibility of hunger strikes in Islam. This ass
 umes a dual source of authority – the jurisprudential authority of relig
 ious scholars and the experiential authority of hunger strikers. I pose 
 the overarching question: in what ways does the perception of prisons an
 d modern carceral states transform fatw? production? This approach thus 
 highlights jurisprudential understandings and the political formations t
 hat lead to fatw? production.
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:A113\, Samuel Alexander Building
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