Chapter 8. Merchants and Mujahidin: Beliefs about Muslim Saints and the History of Towns in Egypt

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Introduction 7
4. Part 1: Conceptual Spaces
5. Chapter 1. Sufi Regional Cults in South Asia and Indonesia: Towards a Comparative Analysis 25
6. Chapter 2. (Re)Imagining Space: Dreams and Saint Shrines in Egypt 47
7. Chapter 3. Remixing Songs, Remaking MULIDS: The Merging Spaces of Dance Music and Saint Festivals in Egypt 67
8. Chapter 4. Notes on Locality, Connectedness, and Saintliness 89
9. Part 2: Contested Places
10. Chapter 5. Saints (awliya’), Public Places and Modernity in Egypt 103
11. Chapter 6. Islam on both Sides: Religion and Locality in Western Burkina Faso 125
12. Chapter 7. The Making of a ‘Harari’ City in Ethiopia: Constructing and Contesting Saintly Places in Harar 149
13. Chapter 8. Merchants and Mujahidin: Beliefs about Muslim Saints and the History of Towns in Egypt 169
14. Abstracts 183
15. On the Authors and Editors of the Yearbook 189
16. Backmatter 191