Sensing Sacred Texts - James W Watts

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

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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.

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Wilkens, Katharina . Infusions and Fumigations: Literacy Ideologies and Therapeutic Aspects of the Qur'an. Sensing Sacred Texts. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 115-136 Oct 2018. ISBN 9781781795767. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=32102. Date accessed: 06 Oct 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.32102. Oct 2018

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