Nurhaizatul Jamil
Associate Professor of Global South Studies and author of Faithful Transformations: Islamic Self-Help in Contemporary Singapore (U Illinois Press, 2025), specializing in ethnographic research on Islamic piety, gender, and racialization in Southeast Asia.
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Apr 10, 2026 • 52min
Nurhaizatul Jamil, "Faithful Transformations: Islamic Self-Help in Contemporary Singapore" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
Nurhaizatul Jamil, Associate Professor of Global South Studies and author, discusses Islamic self-help practices among young Malay Muslim women in Singapore. She explores how seminars teach gratitude, patience, and piety amid state racialization and neoliberal pressures. Conversation covers gender and religious authority, pedagogies of self-improvement, romantic aspirations, and limits of self-help during COVID-19.
Apr 10, 2026 • 52min
Nurhaizatul Jamil, "Faithful Transformations: Islamic Self-Help in Contemporary Singapore" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
Nurhaizatul Jamil, Associate Professor of Global South Studies and author studying Islamic piety and gender. She explores Islamic self-help seminars in Singapore, how women navigate faith, love, work and consumption. Listens to how state racialization, affective teaching, and neoliberal advice shape pious transformation. Hints at modest fashion, ecoethics, and interdisciplinary approaches.
