The Pursuit of Happiness: The Veil as an Inducer of Subjective Well- being in Hadia Said’s Hijab Kashif
awad, asmaa;
Abstract
This paper aims at offering a fresh way to see veiling as a practice
which induces power by means of knowledge, spiritual development and
"subjective well-being". To reach this end, the veil, as the object of
analysis, is approached as a phenomenon interpreted from within the
experience of fictional women; Muslim and non-Muslim, veiled and
unveiled, to evaluate the possibility of its being a means of empowerment
on many conceptual levels. The analysis takes as its basis a variety of
conceptual tools which constitute the framework of argumentation:
Michel Foucault’s concept of technologies of the self, Ibn Al Arabi's
belief that the veil is epistemic by nature, Edward R. Canda and Leola
Dyrud Furman's definition of spirituality, Ed Diener's explanation of the
term subjective well-being and W.R Walker et al 's concept of the Fading
Affect Bias (FAB).
which induces power by means of knowledge, spiritual development and
"subjective well-being". To reach this end, the veil, as the object of
analysis, is approached as a phenomenon interpreted from within the
experience of fictional women; Muslim and non-Muslim, veiled and
unveiled, to evaluate the possibility of its being a means of empowerment
on many conceptual levels. The analysis takes as its basis a variety of
conceptual tools which constitute the framework of argumentation:
Michel Foucault’s concept of technologies of the self, Ibn Al Arabi's
belief that the veil is epistemic by nature, Edward R. Canda and Leola
Dyrud Furman's definition of spirituality, Ed Diener's explanation of the
term subjective well-being and W.R Walker et al 's concept of the Fading
Affect Bias (FAB).
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| Title | The Pursuit of Happiness: The Veil as an Inducer of Subjective Well- being in Hadia Said’s Hijab Kashif | Authors | awad, asmaa | Keywords | Veil, Hadia Said, Hijab kashif, Michel Foucault, Ibn Al Arabi, technologies of the self, power, subjective well-being, happiness, spiritual development, Fading Affect Bias (FAB). | Issue Date | 2018 |
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