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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790759603321

Autore

Spadola Emilio <1972->

Titolo

The calls of Islam : Sufis, Islamists, and mass mediation in urban Morocco / / Emilio Spadola

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-253-01137-X

0-253-01145-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 p.)

Collana

Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa

Disciplina

297.0964/34

Soggetti

Islam - Morocco - History

Sufism - Morocco - History

Mass media in religion - Morocco

Mass media - Religious aspects - Islam

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; 1 Competing Calls in Urban Morocco; 2 Nationalizing the Call: Trance, Technology, and Control; 3 Our Master's Call: The Apotheosis of Moroccan Islam; 4 Summoning in Secret: Mute Letters and Veiled Writing; 5 Rites of Reception; 6 Trance-Nationalism, or, the Call of Moroccan Islam; 7 "To Eliminate the Ghostly Element Between People": The Call as Exorcism; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

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.