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Author Spadola, Emilio

Title Calls of Islam : Sufis, Islamists, and Mass Mediation in Urban Morocco
Published Indiana University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; 1 Competing Calls in Urban Morocco; 2 Nationalizing the Call: Trance, Technology, and Control; 3 Our Master's Call: The Apotheosis of Moroccan Islam; 4 Summoning in Secret: Mute Letters and Veiled Writing; 5 Rites of Reception; 6 Trance-Nationalism, or, the Call of Moroccan Islam; 7 "To Eliminate the Ghostly Element Between People": The Call as Exorcism; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
Summary The sacred calls that summon believers are the focus of this study of religion and power in Fez, Morocco. Focusing on how dissemination of the call through mass media has transformed understandings of piety and authority, Emilio Spadola details the new importance of once-marginal Sufi practices such as spirit trance and exorcism for ordinary believers, the state, and Islamist movements. The Calls of Islam offers new ethnographic perspectives on ritual, performance, and media in the Muslim world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Mass media -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Mass media in religion -- Morocco
Sufism -- Morocco -- History
Islam -- Morocco -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Islam
Mass media in religion
Mass media -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Sufism
Morocco
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013036586
ISBN 9780253011459
0253011450
130616673X
9781306166737
025301137X
9780253011374