NEGOTAIATING SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL WORLDS The Gender of Sanctity in a Muslim City in Africa
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- NEGOTAIATING SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL WORLDS The Gender of Sanctity in a Muslim City in Africa See all items with this value
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- Inhabitants of the city of Harar, in eastern Ethiopia, refer to their city asmadlnat al-awliyd', the "city of saints." Although this epithet is not unique to Harare Residentsof at least one other city, Baghdad, refer to their city as such-the number anddensity of shrines located within and just beyond the wall that bounds this small city, aswell as the relatively high percentage of these shrines devoted to female saints, are quiteremarkable. Some 60,000 people and 356 saints, or awliyd' (sing. wal ), as many as tenpercent of them female, reside in an area of approximately nine square kilometers.'
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- 2017-02-16
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- Camilla Gibb See all items with this value
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- Articles
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