Invoking the invisible in the Sahara : Islam, spiritual mediation, and social change
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Invoking the invisible in the Sahara : Islam, spiritual mediation, and social change
（African studies series）
Cambridge University Press, 2023
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-324) and index
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内容説明
In this innovative new history, Erin Pettigrew utilizes invisible forces and entities - esoteric knowledge and spirits - to show how these forms of knowledge and unseen forces have shaped social structures, religious norms, and political power in the Saharan West. Situating this ethnographic history in what became la Mauritanie under French colonial rule and, later the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Pettigrew traces the changing roles of Muslim spiritual mediators and their Islamic esoteric sciences - known locally as l'hjab - over the long-term history of the region. By exploring the impact of the immaterial in the material world and demonstrating the importance of Islamic esoteric sciences in Saharan societies, she illuminates peoples' enduring reliance upon these sciences in their daily lives and argues for a new approach to historical research that takes the immaterial seriously.
目次
- Introduction: a Saharan ontology of the invisible
- 1. Principles of provenance: origins, debates, and social structures of l'hjab in the Saharan West
- 2. Local wisdom: contestations over l'hjab in the 18th-19th centuries
- 3. Colonial logics of Islam: managing the threat of l'hjab
- 4. Postcolonial transfigurations: contesting l'hjab 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'hjab
- Epilogue.
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