Tacit Textuality : Drinking the Qurʾan in Zanzibar Town.

An ethnography about the practice of ingesting the Qur'an as medicine in Zanzibar Tacit Textuality is an ethnography about the practice of kombe in Zanzibar, in which Qurʾanic verses are liquefied and consumed across religious divides for afflicted bodies to be healed.

Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Nieber, Hanna
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2026.
2027.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
An ethnography about the practice of ingesting the Qur'an as medicine in Zanzibar Tacit Textuality is an ethnography about the practice of kombe in Zanzibar, in which Qurʾanic verses are liquefied and consumed across religious divides for afflicted bodies to be healed.
Umfang:
1 online resource (233 pages)
ISBN:
9781512830095
Schlagworte:
Qurʼān. > Therapeutic use > Tanzania > Zanzibar (Zanzibar).
Ethnographies
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