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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hannoum, Abdelmajid, 1960-

Series:

Routledge Sufi series ; 20.

Routledge Sufi Series ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sufism--Africa.

Sufism.

Sufism--Rituals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages) : illustrations, photographs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. Semiotics of sufism; or how to become a saint / Abdelmajid Hannoum

2. The path of sainthood : structure and danger / Abdallah Hammoudi

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 / Cheick A. Babou

4. Gender and agency in the history of a West African Sufi community : the followers of Yacouba Sylla / Sean Hanretta

5. Historical perspectives on the domed shrine in the Nilotic Sudan / Neil McHugh

6. Genealogies of "orthodox" Islam : the Moroccan gnawa religious brotherhood, "blackness" and the figure of Bilal ibn Rabah / Amanda E. Rogers

7. The promise of sonic translation : performing the festive sacred in Morocco / Deborah A. Kapchan

8. The visual performative of Senegalese Sufism / Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts

9. A Darfur-Doha encounter and a Sufi mystic's whirling for peace / Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf

10. Rethinking the distinction between popular and reform sufism in Egypt : an examination of the mawlid of Muhammad Mitwalli Sha'rawi / Jacquelene Brinton.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-23348-4

1-315-62593-8

1-317-23349-2

9781315625935

OCLC:

953735308