When exploring informal folk heritage, we can see that women in eastern Arabia are active agents toward building a female identity endowed with a personality that competes with men, albeit not in the same fields, but in different fields. In this book, readers shall notice that East Arabian folk heritage carries beliefs, values, and contributes to identity markers. Tales of Identity and folk beliefs are fields to explain inexplicable strange phenomena. They interpret mysterious events, provide symbolic meanings and enshrine rituals among locals. They are further spaces of knowledge that allow women to acquire the rank of female folk heritage Shaikha, making them equal to the male Shaikh of religion, who dominates the official religious space. This book tells a different story about women. A story of women as constructers of popular identity, a consolidator of popular beliefs, and challengers of Arabian men from within the Arab culture. It tells how Arabian Women have mastered their culture and claimed their share of public/private spaces via accepted cultural codes by everyone throughout history.weiterlesen