The Jewelers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World by Azoulay, Ariella Aïsha
The Jewelers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World by Azoulay, Ariella Aïsha

The Jewelers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World

A deeply personal exploration into family, empire, art and identity, from the author of the groundbreaking Potential...
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Author: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
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The Jewelers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World by Azoulay, Ariella Aïsha

The Jewelers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World

$365.18
The Jewelers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World by Azoulay, Ariella Aïsha

The Jewelers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World

$365.18
Author: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A deeply personal exploration into family, empire, art and identity, from the author of the groundbreaking Potential History

Algeria's Arab Jews were renowned for their metal-working and jewellery-making skills, and these jewellers of the ummah--the Arabic community--are, for Azoulay, the symbol of a world that can still be reclaimed and repaired.

In a series of letters written to her father, her great-grandmother, and her children--and to the thinkers and artists she claims as intellectual kin, such as Frantz Fanon and Hannah Arendt--Azoulaytraces the history of Arab Jewish life in Algeria, and how it was disrupted by French colonialism. She begins by asking how her family became assimilated into the identities of "Israeli," "Jewish," or "French."

As she does, she finds a whole lost world open up to her - the world of her family, the Arab Jews of Algeria. She traces how Arab Jews were severed from other Arabs, and how Arab Jews were severed from their Arabness by the Israeli vision of a Jewish diaspora, and sets out to repair those breaks and revive their world.

But it is in the return to the carefully crafted jewels, whose beautifully crafted objects act as messages to the future, reminds us of the conviviality of a world that existed long before colonial disruption, and whose memory challenges the imperial ways of thinking we have all inherited.

Author: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Publisher: Verso
Published: 09/24/2024
Pages: 656
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
ISBN: 9781804293119

About the Author
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay teaches political thought and visual culture at Brown University. She is the author of a number of books including Civil Imagination: A Political Ontology of Photography and Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism.
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