Politics of worship in the contemporary Middle East : sainthood in fragile states /
In Sainthood in Fragile States , a wide range of social scientists explore the contested role of sainthood in the contemporary Middle East. By expanding the notion of sainthood to cover both the religious and secular ways of dealing with extraordinary events, people and things, the volume offers new...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Boston :
Brill,
2013.
Series:
Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia
111.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248731.
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Call Number: BL53 .P645 2013
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: Sainthood in Fragile States /
- Andreas Bandak and Mikkel Bille
- Contesting Fragile Saintly Traditions: Miraculous Healing among Twelver Shiʿis in Contemporary Syria /
- Edith Szanto
- Saints, Media and Minority Cultures: On Coptic Cults of Egyptian Revolution from Alexandria to Maspero /
- Angie Heo
- Enigmas of a Pakistani Warrior Saint: Interrogating Media Conspiracies in an Age of Terror /
- Pnina Werbner
- The Samer, the Saint and the Shaman: Ordering Bedouin Heritage in Jordan /
- Mikkel Bille
- Our Lady of Soufanieh: On Knowledge, Ignorance and Indifference among the Christians of Damascus /
- Andreas Bandak
- Ecstatic Sainthood and Austere Sunni Islam: A majzūb in Northern Pakistan /
- Jürgen Wasim Frembgen
- Imbued with Agency: Contesting Notions of the Extraordinariness of Türkan Saylan /
- Daniella Kuzmanovic
- The Secular Saint: Iconography and Ideology in the Cult of Bashir Jumayil /
- Sune Haugbolle
- Index.