| Description |
1 online resource (269 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Sufi Series |
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Routledge Sufi series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Semiotics of Sufism; or how to become a saint; 2 The path of sainthood: structure and danger; 3 Sufi eschatology and hagiography as responses to colonial repression: an examination of the meanings of Amadu Bamba's trial and exiles by the French colonial administration of Senegal 1895-1907; 4 Gender and agency in the history of a West African Sufi community: the followers of Yacouba Sylla; 5 Historical perspectives on the domed shrine in the Nilotic Sudan |
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6 Genealogies of "orthodox" Islam: the Moroccan Gnawa Religious Brotherhood, "Blackness" and the figure of Bilal ibn Rabah7 The promise of sonic translation: performing the festive sacred in Morocco; 8 The visual performative of Senegalese Sufism; 9 A Darfur-Doha encounter and a Sufi mystic's whirling trance for peace; 10 Rethinking the distinction between popular and reform Sufism in Egypt: an examination of the mawlid of Muhammad Mitwalli Sha'rawi; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sufism -- Africa
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Sufism -- Rituals
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Sufism.
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Sufism -- Rituals.
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Africa.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317233497 |
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1317233492 |
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