Erin Pettigrew

Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara

Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the changing role of Muslim spiritual mediators and Islamic esoteric sciences, Pettigrew outlines how invisible forces have impacted social, religious, and political structures in the Saharan West over centuries. Combining historical and anthropological methods, she offers a model for future research that takes the immaterial seriously.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009224567
• ISBN-10: 1009224565
• Artikelnr.: 70727554

Autorenporträt

Erin Pettigrew is Assistant Professor of History and Arab Crossroads Studies for New York University, Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). She is a cultural historian of colonial and post-colonial West Africa with a focus the history of Islam, slavery, race, gender, and nationhood.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: a Saharan ontology of the invisible; 1. Principles of provenance: origins, debates, and social structures of l'
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b in the Saharan West; 2. Local wisdom: contestations over l'
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b in the 18th-19th centuries; 3. Colonial logics of Islam: managing the threat of l'
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b; 4. Postcolonial transfigurations: contesting l'
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b in the era of social media; 5. Desert panic: bloodsucking accusations and the terror of social change; 6. Sui generis: genealogical claims to the past and the transmission of l'
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b; Epilogue.