Emilio Spadola
Biographic Data
| ID | 106405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emilio Spadola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emilio |
| FAMILY NAME | Spadola |
| SIGNATURE | SPADOLA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colgate University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Zar: Spirit Possession, Music, and Healing Rituals in Egypt
Allegory and Accusation: The Rhetoric of Islamo-gauchisme
While historical and anthropological critiques of secularism have illuminated its contradictory claims, they have been less attentive to secularism’s rhetorical force, i.e., its performative effect. Before theorizing the rhetoric of “Islamo-Gauchisme” and contemporary secularism more broadly, then, this article first traces this inattention to an influential line of argument grounded in anthropologist Talal Asad’s critiques of religion and secula…
Islam, Mediation, Modernity
For crucial feedback on drafts, I thank Georgia Frank and Basit Kareem Iqbal.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsEmilio SpadolaEmilio Spadola is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies at Colgate University
Aria Nakissa, The Anthropology of Islamic Law: Education, Ethics, and Legal Interpretation at Egypt’s Al-Azhar
On Mediation and Magnetism: Or, Why Destroy Saint Shrines?
The author has analyzed reformist movements that have criticized non-Hajj pilgrimage sites and saint veneration. Discussing “spiritual magnetism” of the shrine, the author describes the shrine destructions in the current Middle East, North and West Africa, and Central Asia and tries to unfold the very social and cultural bases of anti-pilgrimage forces especially the Shabab movement and the Fatwa on Sufi shrines.
The Calls of Islam: Sufis, Islamists, and Mass Mediation in Urban Morocco
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Forgive Me Friend: Mohammed and Ibrahim
This essay examines my accidental conversion to Islam and its discomforting consequences for my fieldwork in Morocco. While my conversion and my subsequent efforts to grasp its significance represents an awkward extreme, I use the episode to challenge similar tropes of friendship and obligation, accident and rapport in the American reflexive ethnographic tradition, especially in Morocco-one of the tradition's classic fieldwork sites. Focusing on …
Writing cures: Religious and communicative authority in late modern Morocco
This article examines an Islamic practice of jinn curing and counter-sorcery in contemporary Fez, and identifies the distinct religious power of its practitioners, fqihs (Ar. faqih pl. fuqaha'), with widely held Islamic reformist norms of authoritative communication. Whereas most studies of jinn curing rites in Morocco emphasise 'popular' (i.e. ostensibly heterodox) trance or possession rites, this study examines fqihs' 'scriptural' science of ex…
Rebel between Spirit and Law: Ahmad Zarruq, Sainthood, and Authority in Islam by Scott Kugle
The scandal of ecstasy: Communication, Sufi rites, and social reform in 1930s Morocco
Middle East Section
Inscribing the Body: Tattoos in Traditional and Modern Cultures el-Sayed el-Aswad
Nazar: Photographs from the Arab World
Nazar: Photographs from the Arab World . Wim Melis, editor, with essays by Michket Krifa, Negar Azimi, Issam Nassar, Isolde Brielmaier, Issa Touma, Peter Lewis, and Sherifa Zuhur. New York: Aperature Foundation. 2004
Writing cures: Religious and communicative authority in late modern Morocco
This article examines an Islamic practice of jinn curing and counter-sorcery in contemporary Fez, and identifies the distinct religious power of its practitioners, fqihs (Ar. faqih pl. fuqaha'), with widely held Islamic reformist norms of authoritative communication. Whereas most studies of jinn curing rites in Morocco emphasise 'popular' (i.e. ostensibly heterodox) trance or possession rites, this study examines fqihs' 'scriptural' science of ex…
The scandal of ecstasy: Communication, Sufi rites, and social reform in 1930s Morocco
Forgive Me Friend: Mohammed and Ibrahim
This essay examines my accidental conversion to Islam and its discomforting consequences for my fieldwork in Morocco. While my conversion and my subsequent efforts to grasp its significance represents an awkward extreme, I use the episode to challenge similar tropes of friendship and obligation, accident and rapport in the American reflexive ethnographic tradition, especially in Morocco-one of the tradition's classic fieldwork sites. Focusing on …
Zar: Spirit Possession, Music, and Healing Rituals in Egypt
Nazar: Photographs from the Arab World
Nazar: Photographs from the Arab World . Wim Melis, editor, with essays by Michket Krifa, Negar Azimi, Issam Nassar, Isolde Brielmaier, Issa Touma, Peter Lewis, and Sherifa Zuhur. New York: Aperature Foundation. 2004
Nazar: Photographs from the Arab World
Nazar: Photographs from the Arab World . Wim Melis, editor, with essays by Michket Krifa, Negar Azimi, Issam Nassar, Isolde Brielmaier, Issa Touma, Peter Lewis, and Sherifa Zuhur. New York: Aperature Foundation. 2004
The scandal of ecstasy: Communication, Sufi rites, and social reform in 1930s Morocco
Middle East Section
Inscribing the Body: Tattoos in Traditional and Modern Cultures el-Sayed el-Aswad
Writing cures: Religious and communicative authority in late modern Morocco
This article examines an Islamic practice of jinn curing and counter-sorcery in contemporary Fez, and identifies the distinct religious power of its practitioners, fqihs (Ar. faqih pl. fuqaha'), with widely held Islamic reformist norms of authoritative communication. Whereas most studies of jinn curing rites in Morocco emphasise 'popular' (i.e. ostensibly heterodox) trance or possession rites, this study examines fqihs' 'scriptural' science of ex…
Rebel between Spirit and Law: Ahmad Zarruq, Sainthood, and Authority in Islam by Scott Kugle
Forgive Me Friend: Mohammed and Ibrahim
This essay examines my accidental conversion to Islam and its discomforting consequences for my fieldwork in Morocco. While my conversion and my subsequent efforts to grasp its significance represents an awkward extreme, I use the episode to challenge similar tropes of friendship and obligation, accident and rapport in the American reflexive ethnographic tradition, especially in Morocco-one of the tradition's classic fieldwork sites. Focusing on …
The Calls of Islam: Sufis, Islamists, and Mass Mediation in Urban Morocco
Like the Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa series page on Facebook
On Mediation and Magnetism: Or, Why Destroy Saint Shrines?
The author has analyzed reformist movements that have criticized non-Hajj pilgrimage sites and saint veneration. Discussing “spiritual magnetism” of the shrine, the author describes the shrine destructions in the current Middle East, North and West Africa, and Central Asia and tries to unfold the very social and cultural bases of anti-pilgrimage forces especially the Shabab movement and the Fatwa on Sufi shrines.
Islam, Mediation, Modernity
For crucial feedback on drafts, I thank Georgia Frank and Basit Kareem Iqbal.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsEmilio SpadolaEmilio Spadola is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies at Colgate University
Aria Nakissa, The Anthropology of Islamic Law: Education, Ethics, and Legal Interpretation at Egypt’s Al-Azhar
Allegory and Accusation: The Rhetoric of Islamo-gauchisme
While historical and anthropological critiques of secularism have illuminated its contradictory claims, they have been less attentive to secularism’s rhetorical force, i.e., its performative effect. Before theorizing the rhetoric of “Islamo-Gauchisme” and contemporary secularism more broadly, then, this article first traces this inattention to an influential line of argument grounded in anthropologist Talal Asad’s critiques of religion and secula…
Zar: Spirit Possession, Music, and Healing Rituals in Egypt
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