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Dhikr rituals and culture change
Nubian ceremonial life : studies in Islamic syncretism and cultural change • University Of California Press • Published In 1978 • Pages: 41-60
By: Kennedy, John G., Fahim, Hussein M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study compares aspects of orthodox Islamic, popular Islamic, and non-Islamic or “pagan” beliefs and practices as observed in two locations: a village in “Old Nubia” where local Islam was dominated by asceticism and ceremonies that often included elements of pre-Islamic animism; and a government-planned village for people whose land was submerged due to the raising of the Aswan Dam in 1933. Most men from the new village relied on wage labor in Egyptian cities that brought them into close contact with more puritanical Islamic practices. However, children of these migrants showed interest in reviving traditional Nubian Islamic practices as a rebellion against the restrictiveness of puritanical Islam. See Kennedy (1978 “Bibliography”) for sources cited and Kennedy (1978 “Photographs”) for relevant images.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Cultural participation
- Political movements
- Religious experience
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Revelation and divination
- Prophets and ascetics
- Priesthood
- Congregations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Nubians
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1963-1964
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1963-1964
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern Aswan Governate, Egypt
- NotesAdditional notes
- John G. Kennedy and Hussein M. Fahim
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74077726
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nubians--Egypt