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Presents the results of recent anthropological and historical studies dealing with pilgrimage, religous travel and migration. It is multi-disciplinary and comparative in approach and scope.

This book is one of the first comprehensive studies of Islam as locally understood in the Middle East. Specifically, it is concerned with the prevalent North African belief that certain men, called marabouts, have a special relation to God that enables them to serve as intermediaries and to influence the well-being of their clients and kin. Dale F. Eickelman examines the Moroccan pilgrimage center of Boujad and unpublished Moroccan and French ...

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Readers will find fresh and thought-provoking studies: thediffering approaches of the U.S. and the (former) Soviet Union to Middle Eastpolicy, Central Asia, and South Asia... provide grounds for self-criticism and theexploration of new directions." -- John L. Esposito..".recommended highly for its expert analyses of political Islam." -- Journal ofThird World StudiesRussian, Central Asian, and American scholarsappraise recent political and reli...

It is difficult to imagine a more thoughtful, balanced, orcomprehensive treatment of this extremely elusive and difficult subject." --Digest of Middle East StudiesThis second edition of a widelyacclaimed collection of essays reports on how new media -- fax machines, satellitetelevision, and the Internet -- and the new uses of older media -- cassettes, pulpfiction, the cinema, the telephone, and the press -- shape belief, authority, andcommunit...