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Struggle for change in a Nubian communitybook chapter 1977 • Kennedy, John G. & Fahim, Hussein M.
Nubians • Africa > Northern Africa
This study of socioeconomic changes in a government-planned village for resettling Nubian farmers in Egypt whose lands were submerged by the Aswan High Dam begins by providing a broad historical and ethnographic background. Comparison of living condi...Dhikr rituals and culture changeessay 1978 • Kennedy, John G. & Fahim, Hussein M.
Nubians • Africa > Northern Africa
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...