The Victim and Its Masks: Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Victim and Its Masks: Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb Book

The Victim and its Masks : Paperback : The University of Chicago Press : 9780226315263 : 0226315266 : 01 Nov 1993 : The Ait Mazine of northern Morocco reenact the story of Abraham as a ritual sacrifice, a symbolic observance of submission to the divine. After comes a bacchanalian masquerade which seems to violate every principle the sacrifice affirmed. This study reunites them as a single ritual process.Read More

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    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.

  • 0226315266
  • 9780226315263
  • Hammoudi
  • 1 August 1993
  • Chicago University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 216
  • 2nd
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