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Book SynopsisOffers new ethnographic perspectives on ritual, performance, and media in the Muslim world.
Trade ReviewSpadola's book is theoretically sophisticated, skillfully constructed, and rich in detail.
* Journal of Religion *
Calls of Islam is an instructive contribution to the literature on Morocco's socio-culltural and political idiosyncrasies.
* Review of Middle East Studies *
Spadola's dense but short study . . . manages admirably well to deal with a complex topic, skillfully balancing ethnographic and analytic elements.
* American Ethnologist *
[The] tension between social classes is subtly drawn out throughout this exemplary book, and Spadola also does a magnificent job tying local, national, and transnational contexts together. Although writing about a very specific place and time, he manages to capture post-millennial anxieties about Islam and belonging that are far reaching in their scope.
* Contemporary Islam *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Calls of Islam
1. Calls from the Unseen
2. Nationalizing the Call: Trance, Technology and Control
3. Our Master's Call
4. Summoning in Secret: Mute Letters and Veiled Writing
5. Rites of Reception
6. Trance-Nationalism; or the Call of Moroccan Islam
7. "To Eliminate the Ghostly Element between People:" The Call as Exorcism Epilogue: The Arab Spring, the Monarchy's Call
