Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara - Erin Pettigrew

Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara

Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change

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Buch | Hardcover
252 Seiten
2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-22461-1 (ISBN)
109,95 inkl. MwSt
Exploring the changing role of Muslim spiritual mediators and Islamic esoteric sciences, Pettigrew outlines how invisible forces have impacted social, religious, and political structures in the Saharan West over centuries. Combining historical and anthropological methods, she offers a model for future research that takes the immaterial seriously.
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'ḥjāb - 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.

Erin Pettigrew is Assistant Professor of History and Arab Crossroads Studies for New York University, Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). She is a cultural historian of colonial and post-colonial West Africa with a focus the history of Islam, slavery, race, gender, and nationhood.

Introduction: a Saharan ontology of the invisible; 1. Principles of provenance: origins, debates, and social structures of l'ḥjāb in the Saharan West; 2. Local wisdom: contestations over l'ḥjāb in the 18th-19th centuries; 3. Colonial logics of Islam: managing the threat of l'ḥjāb; 4. Postcolonial transfigurations: contesting l'ḥjāb 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'ḥjāb; Epilogue.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie African Studies
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 235 mm
Gewicht 690 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Geschichtstheorie / Historik
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-009-22461-1 / 1009224611
ISBN-13 978-1-009-22461-1 / 9781009224611
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