The calls of Islam : Sufis, Islamists, and mass mediation in urban Morocco / Emilio Spadola.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spadola, Emilio, 1972-

Series:

Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa

Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Morocco--History.

Islam.

Sufism--Morocco--History.

Sufism.

Mass media in religion--Morocco.

Mass media in religion.

Mass media--Religious aspects--Islam.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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.

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253011374

025301137X

9780253011459

0253011450

OCLC:

864747973