Practicing Sufism : Sufi politics and performance in Africa /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2016.
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| Series: | Routledge Sufi series ;
v. 20. |
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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.