Table of Contents

Introduction Abdelmajid Hannoum, University of Kansas

Chapter 1: Semiotics of Sufism; or How to Become a Saint Abdelmajid Hannoum, University of Kansas

Chapter 2: The Path of Sainthood: Structure and Danger Abdallah Hammoudi, Princeton University

Chapter 3: Sufi eschatology and hagiography as Responses to Colonial Repression Cheick A. Babou, University of Pennsylvania

Chapter 4: Gender and Agency in the History of a West African Sufi Community: The Followers of Yacouba Sylla Sean Hanretta, Northwestern University

Chapter 5: Historical Perspectives on the Domed Shrine in the Nilotic Sudan Neil McHugh, Fort Lewis College

Chapter 6: Genealogies of "Orthodox" Islam: The Moroccan Gnawa Religious Brotherhood, "Blackness" and the figure of Bilal ibn Rabah Amanda E. Rogers, Georgia State University

Chapter 7: The Promise of Sonic Translation: Performing the Festive Sacred in Morocco Deborah A. Kapchan, New York University

Chapter 8: The Visual Performative of Senegalese Sufism Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles

Chapter 9: A Darfur-Doha Encounter and a Sufi Mystic’s Whirling for Peace Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Georgetown University

Chapter 10 Rethinking the Distinction between Popular and Reform Sufism in Egypt: An Examination of the Mawlid of Muhammad Mitwalli Sha‘rawi. Jacquelene Brinton, University of Kansas

About the Author

Abdelmajid Hannoum teaches anthropology and African studies at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Colonial Histories, Postcolonial Memories (2001) and Violent Modernity (2010) and numerous essays and articles on Islam, colonialism, and secularism.