"Everything Has Beauty but Not Everyone Sees It": An Islamic Alternative to Assessing Beauty

The constant reference to beauty ideals in all facets of contemporary culture, including work, sex, and religion as well as the constant exposure to images of "beautiful" women, which are ubiquitous in the mass media as the ideal, make a search for a categorical view a necessity. Through q...

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Published inJournal of intercultural communication research Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 211 - 226
Main Author Fahm, Abdulgafar Olawale
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Russellville Routledge 03.05.2020
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Beauty
contemporary issue
Discourse analysis
Hadith
Islam
Mass media
Qualitative research
Qur'an
Quran
Religion
Religious literature
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Summary:The constant reference to beauty ideals in all facets of contemporary culture, including work, sex, and religion as well as the constant exposure to images of "beautiful" women, which are ubiquitous in the mass media as the ideal, make a search for a categorical view a necessity. Through qualitative research approach, in which critical, content, and discourse analysis were applied on classical, as well as relevant contemporary materials on beauty, this study contributes an Islamic perspective to the discourse, and hinges its discussions on the primary sources in Islam (Qur'an and Hadith). The paper examines what the Qur'an and Hadith view as beauty and physical attractiveness. It was discovered that in Islam, beauty has five primary emphases: virtue, divine, nature, order, and proportion.
ISSN:1747-5759
1747-5767
DOI:10.1080/17475759.2020.1736601