|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
The Victim and its Masks: An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb
University of Chicago Press, 1993 Paper: 978-0-226-31526-3 | Cloth: 978-0-226-31525-6 Library of Congress Classification DT328.M53H3613 1993 Dewey Decimal Classification 394.2682970964
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. See other books on: Essay | Morocco | Religious life and customs | Rites and ceremonies | Rituals & Practice See other titles from University of Chicago Press |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Nearby on shelf for History of Africa / Maghrib. Barbary States / Morocco:
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![](https://www.bibliovault.org/thumbs/978-1-940425-76-4-thumb.jpg "Algerian Diary: Frank Kearns and the "Impossible Assignment" for CBS News")
The Victim and its Masks: An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
University of Chicago Press, 1993
Paper: 978-0-226-31526-3
Cloth: 978-0-226-31525-6
Paper: 978-0-226-31526-3
Cloth: 978-0-226-31525-6
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.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
