The Victim and its Masks: An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb
MIA KARTS BOOKS
Book details
- Author
- Abdellah Hammoudi
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Islam
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780226315263
- ISBN-10
- 0226315266
- Vendor: Mia Karts
The Victim and its Masks: An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb
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ISBN: 0226315266
Author: Hammoudi, Abdellah
Condition: New
Each year, in a solemn Sunni Muslim feast, the Ait Mizane of southern Morocco reenact the story of Abraham as a ritual sacrifice, a symbolic observance of their submission to the divine. After this sober ceremony comes a bacchanalian masquerade which seems to violate every principle the sacrifice affirmed. Because of the apparent contradiction between sacrifice and masquerade, observers have described the two as entirely separate events. This book reunites them as a single ritual process within Islamic tradition.
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