Identity, Place, Space, and Rhymes During a Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Moulay Abdessalam, Morocco

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ID3933045
AuthorsSarali Gintsburg (0000-0003-2962-9534, Institute for Culture and Society, Main Library, University of Navarra 31009 Pamplona Spain, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume48
Issue3
Pages204-230
Publication date2018-12-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Religion in Africa (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-4200 • E-ISSN: 1570-0666
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/15700666-12340138
OpenAlexW2969535824
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited12

The Jbala region in northern Morocco is known for an enormous number of Sufi lodges, shrines of local saints, and the cults of those saints. However, this topic has entirely escaped the attention of modern scholars. This paper focuses on the ziyara, or tradition of pilgrimage to a shrine of a saint, connecting it to the debate on place and space on the one hand, and identity studies on the other. Using a classical ethnographic approach, I analyze one such pilgrimage that took place in 2018, in which I was invited to participate as a guest,. In this paper I understand pilgrimage as a communal spiritual journey and analyze the roles the collective and individual play in it, as well as how and by what means the participants cocreate and experience constructs of place and space

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Anthropology of religion · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Ethnography · History of religions · Identity (music) · Linguistics · Pilgrimage · SAINT · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Anthropology · Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces

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