Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara
Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change
Series: African Studies; 159;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 26 January 2023
- ISBN 9781009224611
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages252 pages
- Size 235x158x25 mm
- Weight 690 g
- Language English 474
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Short description:
Explores how Islamic esoteric sciences and spiritual mediators have shaped social change in the Saharan West.
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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'&&&7717;j&&&257;b - 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.
'Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara situates battles over the meaning and control of Islamic esoteric knowledge (&&&7717;j&&&257;b) in Mauritania's history of racial&&&160;and political struggles dating to the pre-colonial era. Innovatively using contemporary social media alongside traditional textual and oral sources, Pettigrew reveals the resilience and adaptability of both &&&7717;j&&&257;b power and practitioners. 'Magic' in Mauritania has not disappeared; it has become a marketable commodity.' Ann McDougall, University of Alberta
Table of Contents:
Introduction: a Saharan ontology of the invisible; 1. Principles of provenance: origins, debates, and social structures of l'&&&7717;j&&&257;b in the Saharan West; 2. Local wisdom: contestations over l'&&&7717;j&&&257;b in the 18th-19th centuries; 3. Colonial logics of Islam: managing the threat of l'&&&7717;j&&&257;b; 4. Postcolonial transfigurations: contesting l'&&&7717;j&&&257;b 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'&&&7717;j&&&257;b; Epilogue.
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