Overview

There is a scarcity of sociological literature on the role and place of sport within the Arab World and the Middle East that centralizes a critical Muslim perspective. This is significant given both their immense geographical scope and the continued and emerging social and political issues within the Muslim world, in which sport and physical cultures play an important role. This timely edited collection responds to an ongoing need for a critical Muslim studies approach to sport and physical cultures in the Arab World, the Middle East, and North Africa. In the tradition of a critical Muslim studies approach and bringing together a diverse community of scholars, both established and emerging, the chapters utilize sport and physical cultures as its entry point to interrogate and critique Orientalist, Eurocentric, and positivist understandings of Arab and Middle Eastern cultures and communities, engage with intersectional, postcolonial, and decolonial epistemologies to advance this mission, and illuminate and legitimize the sporting knowledge and experiences of those from physical cultures in these regions. Prioritizing sociological analyses from sport scholars from regions which tend to be omitted within Western sport scholarship, Arab and Middle Eastern Sport situates both the scholars and communities discussed in the sociology of sport literature. Boasting a wide range of analyses, it is appealing to sport scholars from diverse interdisciplinary and methodological backgrounds.

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Author:   Adam Ehsan Ali (Western University, Canada) ,  Umer Hussain (Wilkes University, USA)
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.446kg
ISBN:  

9781835492635

ISBN 10:   1835492630
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 October 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Case for Arab, Middle Eastern, and Muslim Perspectives on Sport; Adam Ehsan Ali and Umer Hussain Chapter 1. A Tree Begins with a Seed: Muslim Women and Sport Governance in Oman; Asma Khalil Chapter 2. The Role of Football in the Algerian Independence: A Revolutionary Case of FLN Football Team; Guilherme Silva Pires De Freitas and Felipe Antonio Honorato Chapter 3. “This is now Morocco's World Cup!” Challenging Orientalist Portrayals of Morocco at the 2022 FIFA World Cup; Umer Hussain and Adam Ehsan Ali Chapter 4. ‘I Do My Duty of Praying, Fasting and Staying Away from Sins’: A Qualitative Study Centering Muslim Palestinian Footballers; Moetiz Samad Chapter 5. Gender Washing or Gender Equity? Women and Sports In Contemporary Saudi Arabia; Arnošt Svoboda, Simona Šafaříková, Jorge Knijnik, and Billy Graeff Chapter 6. Football in the Shadow of Politics: Persian-Speaking Comments on Twitter/X Refusing the Iran Football National Team to Sing National Anthem; Mahdi Latififard and Amin Yadegari Chapter 7. “I Watch Women Struggle with Great Admiration and I Am Always Proud”: A Comparative Analysis of Women's Exercise and Sports Culture in The Early Turkish Republic and Contemporary Türkiye; İrem Kavasoğlu and Canan Koca Chapter 8. Postcolonialism, Community Building, And Safe Spaces: Sport-Based Interventions for Middle East and North Africa Refugee and Displaced Communities; Farah J. Ishaq Chapter 9. Beyond the Fancy Headlines: A Bibliometric Exploration of FIFA 2022 Influence on the Middle East; Muhammad Haroon Rasheed and Rabia Farooq Chapter 10. Sultans of The Net: Media Framing of the Turkish Women’s National Volleyball Team; Emma S. Ariyo, Ryan Turcott, and Katherine C. Stenning Chapter 11. Unraveling Iran's Sport Landscape in The Shadow of Political Control; Marjan Saffari

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Adam Ehsan Ali is Assistant Professor of Sociocultural Studies in the School of Kinesiology at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. Umer Hussain is Assistant Professor of Sport Management at the Sidhu School of Business & Leadership at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA.

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