Nubian Ceremonial Life Studies in Islamic Syncretism and Cultural Change
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Published: December 1978
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780520027480
Subjects: Islam; Nubia; Nubians; Egypt; Religion
First sentence: It is perhaps indicative of the attitudes of our times that, with the building of the High Dam at Aswan, Egypt generated a worldwide movement to save the ancient monuments of Nubia, but stimulated practically no effort to document the culture of the living Nubians.