ROSE DEIGHTON-MOHAMMED

Visual Culture

>> back to teaching Visual Culture We live in a culture that is saturated by visual images.  It is vital to understand what forces shape visual culture and how it shapes our thinking about a myriad of topics such as politics, race, class, and gender. In this class we will explore the ways visual culture is produced, […]

Introduction to Public Humanities

>> back to teaching Introduction to public humanities Introduction to Public Humanities  uses applied, experiential, and hands-on learning to challenge students’ understanding of the humanities. What are the humanities for? What can the humanities do? What is the role of the university in the creation of culturally valuable knowledge? How can humanities scholars on and […]

Muslim Women’s Storytelling

>> back to teaching Muslim Women’s Storytelling This class critically examines how Muslim women negotiate their experience, identity, and narrative in different genres and styles. Students will read Muslim women’s narratives through scholarship, fiction, autobiography, embodied theory, memoir, music, television, and film. Additionally, students will learn relevant theoretical approaches from the field of religious studies […]

Sufism and Gender: How Embodied Feminist Pedagogy Transforms a Tradition

Sufism and Gender: How Embodied Feminist Pedagogy Transforms a Tradition Sufism and Gender: How Embodied Feminist Pedagogy Transforms a Tradition, explores how modern Sufis are redefining their teachings, pedagogy, and community dynamics in light of their commitments to trauma-informed care, gender justice, and anti-oppressive social values. Sufism and Gender begins with the premise that much […]

Performing Sufi Masculinity by Transcending Embodiment in Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh’s Kitāb al-Ḥikam

>> back to journal articles Published in Journal of Islamic Ethics (2020) Performing Sufi Masculinity by Transcending Embodiment in Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh’s Kitāb al-Ḥikam Through a gendered analysis of Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh’s (d. 709/1309) Kitāb al-Ḥikam (“Book of Wisdom”) this paper demonstrates how the Sufi program offered in the Ḥikam prescribes the performance of masculinity […]

Rearticulating drunkenness and sobriety: Epistemology and literary embodiment in the Shatḥiyāt of Abū Bakr al‐Shiblī and Ibn ‘Aṭā’ Allāh’s Ḥikam

>> back to journal articles Published in Religion Compass (2021)  Rearticulating drunkenness and sobriety: Epistemology and literary embodiment in the Shatḥiyāt of Abū Bakr al‐Shiblī and Ibn ‘Aṭā’ Allāh’s Ḥikam The terms drunk (sukr) and sober (sahw) are significant discursive elements of the Sufi tradition. In the 10th century Junayd al‐Baghdādī (d. 910) initiated their […]