Title: Dimensions of locality : Muslim saints, their place and space /
Authors: Stauth, Georg; Schielke, Joska Samuli.
Publisher: Transcript ; Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Muslim saints.
Contents: Introduction / Samuli Schielke and Georg Stauth -- pt. 1. Conceptual spaces. Sufi regional cults in South Asia and Indonesia: towards a comparative analysis / Pnina Werbner -- (Re)imagining space: dreams and saint shrines in Egypt / Amira Mittermaier -- Remixing songs, remaking MULIDS: the merging spaces of dance music and saint festivals in Egypt / Jennifer Peterson -- Notes on locality, connectedness, and saintliness / Armando Salvatore -- pt. 2. Contested places. Saints (awliyaʹ), public places and modernity in Egypt / Ahmed A. Zayed -- Islam on both sides: religion and locality in western Burkina Faso / Katja Werthmann -- The making of a 'harari' city in Ethiopia: constructing and contesting saintly places in Harar / Patrick Desplat -- Merchants and Mujahidin: beliefs about Muslim saints and the history of towns in Egypt / Souzan El Saied Yousef Mosa.