The Religious Men in Jebel Marra: The Process of Learning and the Performance of Islamic Rituals and Practices

The Religious Men in Jebel Marra: The Process of Learning and the Performance of Islamic Rituals and Practices
ISBN-10
3643909160
ISBN-13
9783643909169
Category
Anthropology of religion
Pages
404
Language
English
Published
2017
Publisher
LIT Verlag Münster
Author
Bakheit M. Nur Mohammed

Description

"The study investigates how Muslim religious specialists (fuqarâ, sing. fakî) acquire Qur'anic knowledge in the context of the 'communities of practice'. It contextualises the Qur'anic schools of Jebel Marra in the Sudan arguing that the fuqarâ increase their access to knowledge of the Qur'an by socially interacting with each other. The book is grounded in a[n] ethnographic study of Qur'anic memorisation and activities that the fuqarâ perform after graduation from Qur'anic schools. It thus provides a fresh perspective to Islamic learning and epistemology. 'The great value of the study lies in the author's reconstruction of the practices and techniques, cognitive and corporeal, which are systematically employed to memorise the whole of the Qur'an.'"--Page 4 of cover.

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