Beyond Fashion Tips and Hijab Tutorials: The Aesthetic Style of Islamic Lifestyle Videos

Among young women, lifestyle videos have become extremely popular on YouTube, and a similar trend has emerged among young Muslim women who share modest fashion tips and discuss religious topics. This paper examines the videos of two prominent Muslim women on YouTube, Amena Khan and Dina Torkia, in an effort to understand how they engage with aesthetic styles in order to work against Western stereotypes of Muslim women as oppressed and lacking individuality. Islamic lifestyle videos might appear to simply promote a vacuous focus on appearances, but I argue that it is through the aesthetics and affects of these videos that Amena and Dina do political work to redistribute the sensible and shift what is considered attractive, beautiful and pleasurable in Western society. Additionally, the hybrid aesthetic styles and affects of authenticity and pleasure, which are possible in digital spaces like YouTube, offer Amena and Dina the chance to control their own visual images and to resist being coopted as icons of Western freedom or Islamic piety.

Graham's American monthly magazine of literature, art, and fashion.

Editors: Jan. 1841- G. R. Graham (with E. A. Poe, Jan. 1841-May 1842; C. J. Peterson, Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, 1842; R. W. Griswold, July 1842-June 1843; R. T. Conrad, Jan.-June 1848: J. R. Chandler, J. B. Taylor, Oct. 1848-Dec. 1849).

Fashion /

Photocopy.

Foundations for fashion.

Planographed.

Fashion cooks/

Includes index.

The Lady's home magazine of literature, art, and fashion.

Title from caption.

Samantha at Saratoga; or, "Flirtin' with Fashion,"

Mode of access: Internet.

Fashion in Paris : the various phases of feminine taste and aesthetics from 1797 to 1897 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Knights of Araby, a story of the Yaman in the fifth Islamic century,

Mode of access: Internet.

Old and new; or, Taste versus fashion.

Mode of access: Internet.

Islamic law in the modern world.

Incldes bibliography.

The sketch book of fashion /

v.1. The second marriage. My place in the country. The pavilion.--v.2. The old and the young bachelor. A manœuver outwitted: or, Relations from India. The intrigante.

Friendship in fashion. : A comedy. /

Head-pieces and tail-piece; initials.

Fashion advertising layout & illustration.

Cover title.

The private correspondence of a woman of fashion /

Attributed to Harriet Pigott by Halkett & Laing, IV, p. 433, and Mansell 458:239.