Identity, Place, Space, and Rhymes During a Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Moulay Abdessalam, Morocco

The Jbala region in northern Morocco is known for an enormous number of Sufi lodges, shrines of local saints, and the cults of those saints. However, this topic has entirely escaped the attention of modern scholars. This paper focuses on the ziyara, or tradition of pilgrimage to a shrine of a saint,...

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1. VerfasserIn: Gintsburg, Sarali 1976- (Verfasst von)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: [2018]
In: Journal of religion in Africa
Jahr: 2018, Band: 48, Heft: 3, Seiten: 204-230
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Marokko (Nord) / Ibn-Mašīš, Abū-Muḥammad ʿAbd-as-Salām 1163-1228 / Wallfahrt / Ort / Sufismus / Religiöse Identität
RelBib Classification:AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion
BJ Islam
KBL Naher Osten; Nordafrika
weitere Schlagwörter:B Oral poetry
B Morocco
B Pilgrimage
B Islamic world
B place and space
B Identity
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Zusammenfassung:The Jbala region in northern Morocco is known for an enormous number of Sufi lodges, shrines of local saints, and the cults of those saints. However, this topic has entirely escaped the attention of modern scholars. This paper focuses on the ziyara, or tradition of pilgrimage to a shrine of a saint, connecting it to the debate on place and space on the one hand, and identity studies on the other. Using a classical ethnographic approach, I analyze one such pilgrimage that took place in 2018, in which I was invited to participate as a guest,. In this paper I understand pilgrimage as a communal spiritual journey and analyze the roles the collective and individual play in it, as well as how and by what means the participants cocreate and experience constructs of place and space.
ISSN:1570-0666
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of religion in Africa
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340138