Sacred Performances : : Islam, Sexuality, and Sacrifice /

Sacred Performances : : Islam, Sexuality, and Sacrifice / / M. E. Combs-Schilling.

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Looks at the monarchy of Morocco and its combination of paradox, dynamism and synthesis, and as a symbol of collective identity. Also studies the contribution of Islamic rituals to the stability of the Moroccan monarchy.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Combs-Schilling, M. E.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1989]
©1989
Year of Publication:1989
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Note on pronunciation
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Essentials
  • 1. Argument
  • 2. Prism
  • Foundations
  • 3. Muhammad
  • 4. Death and debate
  • Historical success and crisis
  • 5. Islam and potent glory
  • 6. Bubonic plague
  • Interlude
  • Cultural Survival
  • 7. Sharifi resolution: the Sa'di blood descendants
  • 8. Prophet's Birthday: light's truth
  • 9. The 'Alawi blood descendants
  • 10. First marriage
  • 11. Bride's blood
  • 12. Ram's blood: Great Sacrifice
  • 13. Ibrahim myth
  • 14. Metaphor
  • 15. Sexuality and sacrifice
  • Twentieth-century success
  • 16. Colonial dichotomy
  • 17. Body and soul
  • Appendix A. Prophetic Blood Links: Patrilines Close to the Prophet and Political Inheritors
  • Appendix B. Partial Genealogy of 'Alawi
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index

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