Name: The Victim and its Masks: An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb
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Author: Abdellah Hammoudi
ISBN: 9780226315263

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

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Physical Book

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Author

Abdellah Hammoudi

Year

1993

Language

English

Pages

216

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0226315266

ISBN13

9780226315263

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

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.

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