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

Abdellah Hammoudi

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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.

Language: English

Pages: 216

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Release: November 01, 1993

ISBN: 0226315266

ISBN 13: 9780226315263

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

Abdellah Hammoudi

3.4/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 216

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Release: November 01, 1993

ISBN: 0226315266

ISBN 13: 9780226315263

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