The Materiality of Sound, Mediation, and Practices of Listening: Observations from Historic and Contemporary Muslim Practices

In his book on the etiquette of listening, the eleventh-century scholar Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī develops a scenario which includes the context, the performer, and the listener who all contribute to turn listening into a transformative experience by which the soul of the listener is moved, his or her in...

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Main Author: Weinrich, Ines (Author)
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Published: Ruhr-Universität Bochum [2020]
In: Entangled Religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 3
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Ġazzālī, Abū-Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ibn-Muḥammad al- 1058-1111 / Islam / Singing / Listening
RelBib Classification:AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
BJ Islam
Further subjects:B Islam
B Materiality
B chanting
B al-Ghazālī
B Sound
B inshād
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