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Drawing upon her anthropological fieldwork in various poor neighbourhoods in Cairo, the author shows the resilience of poor women in the face of poverty. Beliefs about demons that invade the body and thereby cause illness derive from 'formal' as well as 'popular' Islam. Affected women find relief in the Zar ceremony or in a session of Koran healing.

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Drawing upon her anthropological fieldwork in various poor neighbourhoods in Cairo, the author shows the resilience of poor women in the face of poverty. Beliefs about demons that invade the body and thereby cause illness derive from 'formal' as well as 'popular' Islam. Affected women find relief in the Zar ceremony or in a session of Koran healing.
Autorenporträt
Gerda Sengers, Ph.D. (2000) in Social Sciences, studied Semitic languages and cultures (MA 1988) and Cultural Anthropology and the Sociology of non-Western Societies (MA 1994) at the University of Amsterdam. She has traveled extensively through the Middle East and has lived in Egypt for many years.