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Synopsis
This collection of essays based on first-hand anthropological field research spanning many years, brings together in a single volume the author's collected material on characteristics of popular Islam amongst the Somali of the Horn of Africa. Rigorous, outspoken, and backing his arguments with reflections based on a lifetime of research and scholarship, Lewis makes a major contribution to understanding the place and role of religion in Somali society.
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A collection of essays on the place and role of Islam in Somali society, including the cult of saints, pathways to veneration and profiles of local and pan-Islamic holy men.
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