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Practicing Sufism : Sufi politics and performance in Africa
- Title
- Practicing Sufism : Sufi politics and performance in Africa / edited by Abdelmajid Hannoum.
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hannoum, Abdelmajid, 1960-
- Description
- xiii, 254 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Routledge sufi series ; 20
- Uniform Title
- Routledge Sufi series ; 20.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 16-1339
- ISBN
- 9781138649187
- 113864918X
- LCCN
- 2015049690
- OCLC
- 933386146
- Title
- Practicing Sufism : Sufi politics and performance in Africa / edited by Abdelmajid Hannoum.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge sufi series ; 20Routledge Sufi series ; 20.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Hannoum, Abdelmajid, 1960- editor.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 16-1339