Chapter 4. From “Total Fullness” to “Emptiness”: Past Realities, Reform Movements and the Future of the Zawiyas in Kabylia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Introduction. Muslim Saints and Modernity 7
4. Chapter 1. Holy Ancestors, Sufi Shaykhs and Founding Myths: Networks of Religious Geography in the Central Nile Delta 24
5. Chapter 2. Khidr in Istanbul: Observations on the Symbolic Construction of Sacred Spaces in Traditional Islam 36
6. Chapter 3. Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi and Hacı Bektaş Veli: Two Faces of Turkish Islam. Encounters, Orders, Politics 57
7. Chapter 4. From “Total Fullness” to “Emptiness”: Past Realities, Reform Movements and the Future of the Zawiyas in Kabylia 71
8. Chapter 5. Saba Ishirini: A Commemoration Ceremony as the Performance of Translocality around the South Swahili Coast 89
9. Chapter 6. Old Practices and New 1 Meanings: Saint Veneration in Western Algeria 104
10. Chapter 7. Sacred Networks: Sainthood in Regional Sanctified Cults in the Egyptian Delta 124
11. Chapter 8. Jinn, Islam and Media in Morocco 142
12. Chapter 9. On Snacks and Saints: When Discourses of Rationality and Order Enter the Egyptian Mawlid 173
13. Chapter 10. Performing Baraka: Sainthood and Power in Syrian Sufism 195
14. Abstracts 212
15. On the authors and editors 218
16. Backmatter 222