Gendering madness: figuring the majdhu?ba in modern Moroccan hagiography
In this article, I examine what narratives of enraptured madness (jadhb) and the figure of the mad female saint (majdhuba) reveal about the articulation of gendered saintly orthodoxy within the modern Moroccan hagiographical compendium Salwat al-Anfas wa-Muhadathat al-Akyas bi-man Uqbira min al-&quo...
| Subtitles: | "Special Issue: 'Physiology is Theology': Gendered Bodies in Sufi and Islamic Constructions of the Self" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publishing
2022
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Body and religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-73 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Kattānī, Muḥammad Ibn-Ǧaʿfar al- 1857-1927, Salwat al-anfās
/ Insanity (Motif)
/ Female saint
/ Sufism
/ Hagiography
/ Narrative technique
/ Gender-specific role
/ Authority
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam KCD Hagiography; saints |
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Morocco
B majdhūba B Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Kattānī B Hagiography B Gender B Sufism B Madness |
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