Nuevas musulmanas españolas: puzles identitarios y respuestas a los malestares espirituales y de género

Itzea Goikolea Amiano

doi:10.30827/arenal.v27i1.11448

Authors

Itzea Goikolea Amiano SOAS (University of London)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30827/arenal.v27i1.11448

Keywords:

Islam, Women converts, Gender, Feminism, Oral history

Abstract

This article focuses on Spanish women who have converted to Islam. It is framed within the so-called ‘history of the present’ and aims at answering why more and more women embrace Islam in the (gendered) Islamophobic environment of the last two decades. To do so, I analyse the conversion process and the transformations which have taken place in the lives of these new Muslim women, including their identities and relationship with the surrounding context. I also analyse their Islamic and gender discourses. In understanding their conversion processes as well as their lives as Muslims, I suggest we need to envision two transversal axes: a structural and historical one in which several types of unease merge – including the lack of spirituality and gender inequality within secular heteronormativity; and a personal axis which reveals how Islam fits the biography and phenomenology in each one of these women.

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Author Biography

Itzea Goikolea Amiano, SOAS (University of London)

Postdoctoral fellow en el Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies Centre del SOAS (University of London)

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