Volume 13, Issue 1 | Contemporary Islam

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Volume 13, Issue 1

April 2019

Al-Ghayb: The Poetics and Politics of the Unseen in Islam

Issue Editors:

Nils Bubandt,
Mikkel Rytter,
Christian Suhr

8 articles in this issue

A second look at invisibility: Al-Ghayb, Islam, ethnography
Nils Bubandt
Mikkel Rytter
Christian Suhr
OriginalPaper 05 September 2017 Pages: 1 - 16
The unknown in the Egyptian uprising: towards an anthropology of al-Ghayb
Amira Mittermaier
OriginalPaper 25 August 2017 Pages: 17 - 31
Burdening visions: the haunting of the unseen in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Maria Louw
OriginalPaper 24 August 2017 Pages: 33 - 47
The hair of the Prophet: relics and the affective presence of the absent beloved among Sufis in Denmark
Mikkel Rytter
OriginalPaper 22 August 2017 Pages: 49 - 65
Metaphors and paradoxes: secrecy, power and subjectification in Sufi initiation in Aleppo, Syria
Paulo G. Pinto
OriginalPaper 13 September 2017 Pages: 67 - 83
Hidden Sufis and political effects of the unseen: cosmological activism in contemporary Lahore, Pakistan
Ida Sofie Matzen
OriginalPaper 14 September 2017 Pages: 85 - 101
Spirits as technology: tech-gnosis and the ambivalent politics of the invisible in Indonesia
Nils Bubandt
OriginalPaper 19 July 2017 Pages: 103 - 120
Islamic exorcism and the cinema fist: analyzing exorcism among Danish Muslims through the prism of film
Christian Suhr
OriginalPaper 25 August 2017 Pages: 121 - 137