Practicing Sufism : Sufi politics and performance in Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Hannoum, Abdelmajid, 1960- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
Series:Routledge Sufi series ; v. 20.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Semiotics of sufism; or how to become a saint / Abdelmajid Hannoum
  • The path of sainthood: structure and danger / Abdallah Hammoudi
  • Sufi eschatology and hagiography as responses to colonial repression / Cheick A. Babou
  • Gender and agency in the history of a West African Sufi community: the followers of Yacouba Sylla / Sean Hanretta
  • Historical perspectives on the domed shrine in the Nilotic Sudan / Neil McHugh
  • Genealogies of "orthodox" Islam: the Moroccan gnawa religious brotherhood, "blackness" and the figure of Bilal ibn Rabah / Amanda E. Rogers
  • The promise of sonic translation: performing the festive sacred in Morocco / Deborah A. Kapchan
  • The visual performative of Senegalese Sufism / Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts
  • A Darfur-Doha encounter and a Sufi mystic's whirling for peace / Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
  • Rethinking the distinction between popular and reform sufism in Egypt: an examination of the mawlid of Muhammad Mitwalli Sha'rawi / Jacquelene Brinton.