ABSTRACT
Some of the most central and time-honored justifications for the celebration of the mawlid revolve around the evocation and expression of appropriate emotions. Scholarly authors treat sentiments such as joy and love as concrete matters subject to regulation under the shari‘a and to divine reward and punishment. Such emotions are understood both as subjective feelings and in terms of performative conventions whereby love, joy, and reverence for the Prophet are enacted in publicly recognized forms.
