Practicing Sufism (eBook, ePUB)

Sufi Politics and Performance in Africa
Redaktion: Hannoum, Abdelmajid

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This interdisciplinary volume brings together histories and experiences of Sufism in various parts of Africa, offering case studies on several countries that include Morocco, Algeria, Senegal, Egypt, Sudan, Mali, and Nigeria. It uses a variety of methodologies ranging from the hermeneutical, through historiographic to ethnographic, in a comprehensive examination of the politics and performance of Sufism in Africa. While the politics of Sufism pertains largely to historical and textual analysis to highlight paradigms of sanctity in different geographical areas in Africa, the aspect of performance adopts a decidedly ethnographic approach, combining history, history of art and discourse analysis. Together, analysis of these two aspects reveals the many faces of Sufism that have remained hitherto hidden.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317233480
• Artikelnr.: 49376776

Autorenporträt

Abdelmajid Hannoum teaches anthropology and African studies at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Colonial Histories, Postcolonial Memories (2001) and Violent Modernity (2010) and numerous essays and articles on Islam, colonialism, and secularism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Abdelmajid Hannoum, University of Kansas
Chapter 1: Semiotics of Sufism; or How to Become a Saint Abdelmajid Hannoum
, University of Kansas
Chapter 2: The Path of Sainthood: Structure and Danger Abdallah Hammoudi,
Princeton University
Chapter 3: Sufi eschatology and hagiography as Responses to Colonial
Repression Cheick A. Babou, University of Pennsylvania
Chapter 4: Gender and Agency in the History of a West African Sufi
Community: The Followers of Yacouba Sylla Sean Hanretta, Northwestern
University
Chapter 5: Historical Perspectives on the Domed Shrine in the Nilotic Sudan
Neil McHugh, Fort Lewis College
Chapter 6: Genealogies of "Orthodox" Islam: The Moroccan Gnawa Religious
Brotherhood, "Blackness" and the figure of Bilal ibn Rabah Amanda E. Rogers
, Georgia State University
Chapter 7: The Promise of Sonic Translation: Performing the Festive Sacred
in Morocco Deborah A. Kapchan, New York University
Chapter 8: The Visual Performative of Senegalese Sufism Allen F. Roberts
and Mary Nooter Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles
Chapter 9: A Darfur-Doha Encounter and a Sufi Mystic's Whirling for Peace
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Georgetown University
Chapter 10 Rethinking the Distinction between Popular and Reform Sufism in
Egypt: An Examination of the Mawlid of Muhammad Mitwalli Sha'rawi.
Jacquelene Brinton, University of Kansas