Search Results - "The Sufis"

Tolerance, democracy, and Sufis in Senegal /

Table of Contents: “…The public role of the "good Islam": sufi Islam and the administration of pluralism;. a Senegalese story / Mamadou Diouf -- A secular age and the world of Islam / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- Islam's new visibility and the secular public / Beth A. …”
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Religion and mysticism in early Islam theology and Sufism in Yemen : the legacy of Aḥmad Ibn ʻAlwān / by Aziz, Muhammad Ali

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Divine fertility : the continuity in transformation of an ideology of sacred kinship in Northeast Africa / by Mire, Sada, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Aims, structure, concepts, terminology, the movement of peoples and ideas -- Sacred landscapes, materiality and fertility rituals -- Material culture, fertility and sacrifice at the sacred site of Aw-Barkhadle -- In the name of divine kinship: the fertility bath, Bun Shuruur, Baanshada Dumarka, Zar, Sitaat, Wagar, Gudnid Fircooni (FGM) Waqlaal and Istunka -- Sacred fertility of a divine kinship ideology: indigenous institutions and Sufi Islam in the Horn of Africa -- An ideology of fertility in the archaeology of the Horn of Africa: Aw-Barkhadle and beyond -- Conclusions: Divine fertility of a sacred kinship ideology.…”
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