Calls of Islam : Sufis, Islamists, and Mass Mediation in Urban Morocco.
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Indiana University Press,
2013
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| Series: | Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780253011459 0253011450 130616673X 9781306166737 025301137X 9780253011374 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
