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- Title
Watching competencies: Malay women, Turkish serial dramas and Islamic modernity.
- Authors
Syed, Md Azalanshah Md; Runnel, Christine; Shamshudeen, Rosya Izyanie
- Abstract
This article discusses the emergence of Turkish serial dramas as a site for contestation over the impact of Islamic modernity on Malay women in contemporary Malaysia. Despite its popularity among Malay women, Turkish serial drama has been criticized for misleading and confusing the audience about Islamic history, faith, culture and civilization. The controversy over this television genre raises the question of how Malay women, constrained within their position of being female subjects of the state, manage to circumvent the authorities and watch this Turkish serial drama. They are not supposed to challenge social norms, moral propriety, cultural identity and the state vision of modernity. Therefore, this article argues that although Malay women exhibit excitement towards this television genre, they consistently use Islamic knowledge to develop watching skills and become more sceptical as well as competent in interpreting popular Islamic texts. The findings also show that Islam in the Malay world is culturally diverse, progressive and flexible.
- Subjects
MALAYSIA; MALAYS (Asian people); HISTORY of Islam; MODERNITY; CULTURAL identity; SOCIAL norms
- Publication
International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, 2023, Vol 19, Issue 1, p101
- ISSN
1740-8296
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/macp_00075_1