A Muslim Feminist Reading of Shariah in Aceh and the ‘Islamic State’ (IS)

• In Event: Islamonormativity and Islamophobia: Interventions and Resistances

Abstract

Given the recent growth in the spread of Islamophobia on a global scale, Muslims women are often conceived of in a state of precarity surrounding an implied relationship between movements such as the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) and the actual lived experience of Muslim women. In this paper, I compare women’s lived experiences of shariah in Aceh, Indonesia with that of IS’s appeal to shariah as a source of political legitimacy. The theoretical framework is based on a distinction between state-centric and non-state-centric constructions of shariah and between iconoclastic and blueprint utopian thought.

Presenter

• Reed Taylor, University of Arkansas at Little Rock