The Pursuit of Happiness: The Veil as an Inducer of Subjective Well- being in Hadia Said’s Hijab Kashif | ||
| مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب | ||
| Article 3, Volume 18, Issue 5, December 2017, Pages 1-20 PDF (507.23 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jssa.2017.11191 | ||
| Author | ||
| Asmaa Gamal Salem | ||
| English Department, Faculty of Women for Arts, Science and Education | ||
| 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). | ||
| 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) | ||
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