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A Season in Mecca: Narrative of a Pilgrimage

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Abdellah Hammoudi

Hill and Wang, 2006

A Unique View of the Pilgrimage
In 1853, Sir Richard Francis Burton went on the pilgrimage (hajj) to Mecca, and his wonderful account of his successful impersonation as a Muslim pilgrim is still an exciting book. There have been other non-Muslims and Muslims who have written about the travel, which is one of the five pillars of Islam (the others being profession of faith, prayer, fasting, and alms giving). All Muslims who are ...

The Victim and its Masks: An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb
Abdellah Hammoudi

University Of Chicago Press, 1993

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 ...

Being There: The Fieldwork Encounter and the Making of Truth

University of California Press, 2009

Challenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. In Being There, John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi argue that ethnographies based on these strategies elide important insights. To demonstrate the power and knowledge attained through the fieldwork experience, ...

Saison in Mekka
Abdellah Hammoudi

Beck C. H., 2007

Une saison à la Mecque : Récit de pélerinage
Abdellah Hammoudi

Seuil, 2005

La victime et ses masques: Essai sur le sacrifice et la mascarade au Maghreb (French Edition)
Abdellah Hammoudi

Editions du Seuil, 1988

Master and Disciple: The Cultural Foundations of Moroccan Authoritarianism
Abdellah Hammoudi

University Of Chicago Press, 1997

In the postcolonial era, Arab societies have been ruled by a variety of authoritarian regimes. Focusing on his native Morocco, Abdellah Hammoudi explores the ideological and cultural foundations of this persistent authoritarianism. Building on the work of Foucault, Hammoudi argues that at the heart of Moroccan culture lies a paradigm of authority that juxtaposes absolute authority against absolute submission. Rooted in Islamic mysticism, this ...