{"title":"Chapter 8. Merchants and Mujahidin: Beliefs about Muslim Saints and the History of Towns in Egypt","authors":"Souzan El Saied Yousef Mosa","doi":"10.1515/9783839409688-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839409688-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":129610,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions of Locality","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122773615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter 3. Remixing Songs, Remaking MULIDS: The Merging Spaces of Dance Music and Saint Festivals in Egypt","authors":"G. Stauth, S. Schielke","doi":"10.14361/9783839409688-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839409688-003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":129610,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions of Locality","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129115226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783839409688-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839409688-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":129610,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions of Locality","volume":"246 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124706382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter 6. Islam on both Sides: Religion and Locality in Western Burkina Faso","authors":"Katja Werthmann","doi":"10.14361/9783839409688-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839409688-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":129610,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions of Locality","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123016522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter 1. Sufi Regional Cults in South Asia and Indonesia: Towards a Comparative Analysis","authors":"P. Werbner","doi":"10.14361/9783839409688-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839409688-001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":129610,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions of Locality","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129009931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter 5. Saints (awliya’), Public Places and Modernity in Egypt","authors":"A. Zayed","doi":"10.14361/9783839409688-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839409688-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":129610,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions of Locality","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122459178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter 4. Notes on Locality, Connectedness, and Saintliness","authors":"A. Salvatore","doi":"10.14361/9783839409688-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839409688-004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":129610,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions of Locality","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114600686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter 7. The Making of a ‘Harari’ City in Ethiopia: Constructing and Contesting Saintly Places in Harar","authors":"Patrick Desplat","doi":"10.14361/9783839409688-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839409688-007","url":null,"abstract":"The East Ethiopian town of Harar is considered the most important centre of Islam in the Horn of Africa. Its symbolic capital is reflected in its local representation as madinat al-awliya’, the city of saints, which emphasizes the spiritual value of the hundreds of saintly places within its old walls and the many shrines in the countryside beyond them. Some inhabitants go as far as referring to their city as the fourth holiest place in Islam—i.e. after Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem. However this claim is rejected by the majority and is currently used mainly in the tourism sector to attract more visitors. Nonetheless, the associated saints, their legends, and practices of veneration continue to play a significant role in the religious life of the town of Harar and, similar to its ascription as the fourth holiest place in Islam, the saintly tradition is the focus of much debate concerning it legitimacy. This attitude is reflected in the following exchange between two employees of a local administration office:","PeriodicalId":129610,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions of Locality","volume":"189 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124197819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Authors and Editors of the Yearbook","authors":"G. Stauth, S. Schielke","doi":"10.14361/9783839409688-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839409688-010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":129610,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions of Locality","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122254838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}