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Title Practicing Sufism : Sufi politics and performance in Africa / edited by Abdelmajid Hannoum.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge sufi series ; v. 20
Routledge Sufi series ; v. 20.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Sufism -- Africa.
Sufism -- Rituals.
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
Sufism
Sufism -- Rituals
Africa
Added Author Hannoum, Abdelmajid, 1960- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Practicing Sufism. New York, NY : Routledge, 2016 9781138649187 (DLC) 2015049690 (OCoLC)933386146
ISBN 9781317233497 (electronic bk.)
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