Getting God's Ear Women, Islam, and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf

Name: Getting God's Ear Women, Islam, and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf
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ISBN: 9780231116671

ISBN-10: 0231116675

ISBN-13: 9780231116671

Edition: 2nd 2000

Authors: Eleanor Abdella Doumato

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Focusing on the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, this book weights the influence of Wahhabi Islam on women's religious experience against the experience of women in the Sunni and Shia towns of Kuwait and Bahrain.

Book details

List price: $38.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 1/11/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 498
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.96" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Eleanor Abdella Doumato is adjunct professor of international relations at the Watson Institute of Brown University. She is a past president of the Association for Middle East Women's Studies and the editor of the Middle East Women's Studies Review.



Acknowledgments


A Note on the Spelling of Arabic Words and Proper Nouns


Prologue


Introduction: Making Connections: Knowledge, Rituals, and Healing



Women and Religious Learning: Piety and a Matter of Propriety



Prayer, the Mosque, and the Ways Women Worship



The Healing Power of Words: Ink, Spit, and Holy Speech



Engaging Spirits: Prophylaxis, Witchcraft, Exorcisms, Trial by Ordeal, and Zar



When Words Fail: Surgeries, Smells, and Salt Packing


Conclusion: Community, Gender, and the Spiritual Experience


Epilogue: Saudi Arabia, 1998



The Scene of the Action for Getting God's Ear


Notes


Bibliography


Index