Introduction Abdelmajid Hannoum, University of Kansas

Chapter 1: Semiotics of Sufism; or How to Become a Saint Abdelmajid Hannoum, University of Kansas



Chapter 2: The Path of Sainthood: Structure and Danger Abdallah Hammoudi, Princeton University



Chapter 3: Sufi eschatology and hagiography as Responses to Colonial Repression Cheick A. Babou, University of Pennsylvania



Chapter 4: Gender and Agency in the History of a West African Sufi Community: The Followers of Yacouba Sylla Sean Hanretta, Northwestern University



Chapter 5: Historical Perspectives on the Domed Shrine in the Nilotic Sudan Neil McHugh, Fort Lewis College



Chapter 6: Genealogies of "Orthodox" Islam: The Moroccan Gnawa Religious Brotherhood, "Blackness" and the figure of Bilal ibn Rabah Amanda E. Rogers, Georgia State University



Chapter 7: The Promise of Sonic Translation: Performing the Festive Sacred in Morocco Deborah A. Kapchan, New York University



Chapter 8: The Visual Performative of Senegalese Sufism Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles



Chapter 9: A Darfur-Doha Encounter and a Sufi Mystic’s Whirling for Peace Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Georgetown University

Chapter 10 Rethinking the Distinction between Popular and Reform Sufism in Egypt: An Examination of the Mawlid of Muhammad Mitwalli Sha‘rawi. Jacquelene Brinton, University of Kansas