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Tacit Textuality : Drinking the Qurʾan in Zanzibar Town.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nieber, Hanna.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- 2026.
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2027.
- Summary:
- An ethnography about the practice of ingesting the Qur'an as medicine in Zanzibar Tacit Textuality is an ethnography about the practice of kombe in Zanzibar, in which Qurʾanic verses are liquefied and consumed across religious divides for afflicted bodies to be healed.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- A Note on Style
- Introduction Content and Form
- Part I
- Chapter 1. Text and Tacitness
- Chapter 2. Bodies in Script and in Health
- Part II
- Chapter 3. Across Religions: Discursive Stimuli
- Chapter 4. Reconsidering the Interreligious Gap
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Nieber, Hanna Tacit Textuality
- ISBN:
- 9781512830095
- OCLC:
- 1590084064
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