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4 - Al-Aqsa will not be Divided!

Murabitat Traveling to, Studying in, and Fighting for al-Aqsa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2020

Lihi Ben Shitrit
Affiliation:
University of Georgia
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Since 1996 the Islamic Movement in Israel has organized a popular mobilization campaign under the slogan “al-Aqsa is in Danger.” The movement has re-centered al-Aqsa Mosque as the central religious-nationalist symbol of the Palestinian struggle. In the process, it has tried to enlist the Palestinian community inside Israel, Jerusalem, and the occupied Palestinian territories as well as the Arab and Muslim worlds. Pious Muslim women have joined this campaign en masse, participating in the kind of public protest action that goes well beyond the traditional gendered division of labor advocated formally by the Islamic Movement. The chapter examines these and other women’s activities for al-Aqsa to trace their strategies of the removal of intra-communal divisions and the domestication of the holy – which are in many ways similar to their deployment in the Jewish Israeli cases. Activities include organizing religious, educational, and recreational activities for women, students, and children, celebrating personal occasions such as marriages, utilizing social media to articulate the bond between women and al-Aqsa, and other activities that enhance Muslim presence at the site and transform it from a distant, divided, and exclusive place of worship to one enmeshed in the everyday.

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Women and the Holy City
The Struggle over Jerusalem's Sacred Space
, pp. 122 - 175
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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