HOMEWORK 1
Homework No 1
Task: Replicate the following layouts:
Fairuz Love Song
Much of the literature and visual materials on Umm Kulthum (1898-1975) address her as "Lady of Arab Music", "Star of the East", while aspects like her “Gender identity” or “Sexuality” have not been touched upon as far as I know. This is understandable if one knows that investigating women’s gender or sexuality or even music in modern Arab Islamic countries is to approach a conjunction of elements that have led a chronically uneasy coexistence over the centuries. This is a question that has always been a controversial legal and social one in orthodox Islam.Islamic stance on gender issues has been clearly marked since beginning of 7th century AD, through obligatory quality Qur’anic verses such as: "God commands you in your children that males inherit twice the share of females.” (Qur’an, chapter 4: vs11) or “Men are in charge of women, as Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other.” (Qur’an, chapter4: vs 34)These verses, among others, clearly stipulate the lower status of women in society compared to that of men, and systematically block any attempt at socially grounded criticism.
Fairuz Love Song
Much of the literature and visual materials on Umm Kulthum (1898-1975) address her as "Lady of Arab Music", "Star of the East", while aspects like her “Gender identity” or “Sexuality” have not been touched upon as far as I know. This is understandable if one knows that investigating women’s gender or sexuality or even music in modern Arab Islamiccountries is to approach a conjunction of elements that have led a chronically uneasy coexistence over the centuries. This is a question that has always been a controversial legal and social one in orthodox Islam.Islamic stance on gender issues has been clearly marked since beginning of 7th century AD, through obligatory quality Qur’anic verses such as: "God commands you in your children that males inherit twice the share of females.” (Qur’an, chapter 4: vs11) or “Men are in charge of women, as Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other.” (Qur’an, chapter4: vs 34)These verses, among others, clearly stipulate the lower status of women in society compared to that of men, and systematically block any attempt at socially grounded criticism.
Much of the literature and visual materials on Umm Kulthum (1898-1975) address her as "Lady of Arab Music", "Star of the East", while aspects like her “Gender identity” or “Sexuality” have not been touched upon as far as I know. This is understandable if one knows that investigating women’s gender or sexuality or even music in modern Arab Islamic countries is to approach a conjunction of elements that have led a chronically uneasy coexistence over the centuries. This is a question that has always been a controversial legal and social one in orthodox Islam.Islamic stance on gender issues has been clearly marked since beginning of 7th century AD, through obligatory quality Qur’anic verses such as: "God commands you in your children that males inherit twice the share of females.” (Qur’an, chapter 4: vs11) or “Men are in charge of women, as Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other.” (Qur’an, chapter4: vs 34)These verses, among others, clearly stipulate the lower status of women in society compared to that of men, and systematically block any attempt at socially grounded criticism.
