Sensing Sacred Texts - James W Watts
Infusions and Fumigations: Literacy Ideologies and Therapeutic Aspects of the Qur'an
Sensing Sacred Texts - James W Watts
Katharina Wilkens
Ludwig Maximillans University, Munich
Description
Katharina Wilkens deploys an analogy with linguistic code-switching to analyze the frequent clashes between semantic-purist and somatic-iconic ideologies over Quranic medicine in Muslim cultures, especially in East Africa. Her argument provides a model for understanding conflicts between scholars and practitioners over book rituals in a wide variety of religious traditions.