A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal

Mark D. Delancey; Allen F. Roberts; Mary Nooter Roberts; Gassia Armenian; Ousmane Gueye

doi:10.2307/4129032

A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal

Mark D. Delancey
, Allen F. Roberts
, Mary Nooter Roberts
, Gassia Armenian
, Ousmane Gueye

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

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Preface / Mamadou DioufIntroduction: Aura and Icon in Contemporary SenegalCh. 1. Mystical reproductions: Photography and the authentic simulacrumCh. 2. Portraits of the hidden side: Sanctifying domestic spaceCh. 3. Stations in a life: Glass paintings as visual hagiographyCh. 4. Apostles of hard work: Sheikh Ibra Fall and the Baye Fall movementCh. 5. 'Walls that speak': Public art and postcolonial memoryCh. 6. Mouride women: In the mirror of the motherCh. 7. Healing words: Mouride arts of writing and inscriptionCh. 8. Contemporary art and a 'Mouride way of reasoning'Ch. 9. An architecture of the wordCh. 10. Pilgrimage and exile, transcendence and prosperity.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	387
Journal	The International Journal of African Historical Studies
Volume	37
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/4129032
State	Published - 2004

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