Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Overture: Philology as the Love of Study ix
4. Introduction: Deaths of Philology 1
5. ONE Beginnings: The Text, the World, and the Sufi 38
6. TWO A Degree of Prophecy 61
7. THREE Islam Noir: Surveillance Ethnography and the Politics of Representation 86
8. FOUR A Monumental Text in an Orientalist Season 115
9. FIVE The Pitfalls of National Literature 142
10. SIX The Secular-Religious Afterlife of Shaykh Musa Kamara 180
11. Coda: Long Live Philology! Or, Remembering the Future of the Humanities 213
12. Notes 229
13. Acknowledgments 271
14. Index 277