Arab and Middle Eastern Sport - (Research in the Sociology of Sport) by Adam Ehsan Ali & Umer Hussain (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- There is a scarcity of sociological literature on the role and place of sport within the Arab World and the Middle East that centralizes a critical Muslim perspective.
- About the Author: Adam Ehsan Ali is Assistant Professor of Sociocultural Studies in the School of Kinesiology at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada.
- 296 Pages
- Social Science, Sociology
- Series Name: Research in the Sociology of Sport
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About the Book
This timely edited collection responds to an ongoing need for a critical Muslim studies approach to sport and physical cultures in the Arab World, the Middle East, and North Africa, illuminating and legitimizing the sporting knowledge and experiences of those from physical cultures in these regions.
Book Synopsis
There is a scarcity of sociological literature on the role and place of sport within the Arab World and the Middle East that centralizes a critical Muslim perspective. This is significant given both their immense geographical scope and the continued and emerging social and political issues within the Muslim world, in which sport and physical cultures play an important role. This timely edited collection responds to an ongoing need for a critical Muslim studies approach to sport and physical cultures in the Arab World, the Middle East, and North Africa.
In the tradition of a critical Muslim studies approach and bringing together a diverse community of scholars, both established and emerging, the chapters utilize sport and physical cultures as its entry point to interrogate and critique Orientalist, Eurocentric, and positivist understandings of Arab and Middle Eastern cultures and communities, engage with intersectional, postcolonial, and decolonial epistemologies to advance this mission, and illuminate and legitimize the sporting knowledge and experiences of those from physical cultures in these regions.
Prioritizing sociological analyses from sport scholars from regions which tend to be omitted within Western sport scholarship, Arab and Middle Eastern Sport situates both the scholars and communities discussed in the sociology of sport literature. Boasting a wide range of analyses, it is appealing to sport scholars from diverse interdisciplinary and methodological backgrounds.
About the Author
Adam Ehsan Ali is Assistant Professor of Sociocultural Studies in the School of Kinesiology at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada.
Umer Hussain is Assistant Professor of Sport Management at the Sidhu School of Business & Leadership at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA.