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This book is one of the first comprehensive studies of Islam as locally understood in the Middle East. Specifically, it is concerned with the prevalent North African belief that certain men, called marabouts, have a special relation to God that enables them to serve as intermediaries and to influence the well-being of their clients and kin. Dale F. Eickelman examines the Moroccan pilgrimage center of Boujad and unpublished Moroccan and French archival materials related to it to show how popular Islam has been modified by its adherents to accommodate new social and economic realities. In the course of his analysis he demonstrates the necessary interrelationship between social history and the anthropological study of symbolism. -- Publisher description.

Sociology of religion --- Islam --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Boujad --- Muslim saints --- Boujad (Morocco) --- Morocco --- Social life and customs --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A77 --- #SBIB:316.331H300 --- -Muslim saints --- -Islamic saints --- Saints, Muslim --- Sufi saints --- Saints --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten --- Godsdienst en samenleving: algemeen --- -Social life and customs. --- Social life and customs. --- Islam. --- Manners and customs. --- Muslim saints. --- Bedevaarten. --- Gebruiken. --- Gesellschaft. --- Morocco. --- Marokko. --- Maroc --- Moeurs et coutumes --- -Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Saints musulmans --- Islamic saints --- Abū al-Jaʻd (Morocco) --- Boujad, Morocco --- Muslim saints - Morocco - Boujad --- Islam - Morocco --- Boujad (Morocco) - Social life and customs --- Morocco - Social life and customs