Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara: Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change

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 futu...

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Main Author: Pettigrew, Erin (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2023
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Series/Journal:African Studies v.159
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520 |a Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Epigraph -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Maps -- Photographs -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Orthography and Translation -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Saharan Ontology of the Invisible -- Defining the Invisible -- Historicizing the Invisible -- Interpreting the Invisible -- The Saharan Invisible -- Looking for the Invisible -- To Invoke the Invisible -- Part I Knowledge and Authority in Precolonial Contexts -- 1 Principles of Provenance: Origins, Debates, and Social Structures of l'ḥjāb in the Saharan West -- On Origins -- Timbuktu Iterations -- Zwāya Values -- Conclusion -- 2 Local Wisdom: Contestations over l'ḥjāb in the Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries -- Kunta Wisdom -- Fouta Wisdom -- Powerful Discourses of Condemnation -- Provincializing Reformist Discourse -- Conclusion -- Part II Rupture, Consonance, and Innovation in Colonial and Postcolonial Mauritania -- 3 Colonial Logics of Islam: Managing the Threat of l'ḥjāb -- Healers de passage -- Colonialism on the Margins of Empire -- The Saharan Nostradamus -- Le Allah Naagande -- L'islam maure -- End of an Era -- Conclusion -- 4 Postcolonial Transfigurations: Contesting l'ḥjāb in the Era of Social Media -- The Limits of Modernizing Discourses -- Public Displacement -- Mauritania Dispossessed -- Conclusion -- Part III Articulating Race, Gender, and Social Difference through the Esoteric Sciences -- 5 Desert Panic: Bloodsucking Accusations and the Terror of Social Change -- Precolonial Descriptions of Bloodsucking -- Administrative Concerns during the Colonial Period -- Patterns and Context -- A New Social Order -- Conclusion -- 6 Sui Generis: Genealogical Claims to the Past and the Transmission of l'ḥjāb -- Along the Senegal River -- Prophetic Descent. 
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