Women and Demons

Women and Demons

Cultic Healing in Islamic Egypt

by Gerda Sengers

302 pages· 2003· ISBN 9789004127715
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Drawing upon her anthropological fieldwork in various poor neighbourhoods in Cairo, the author shows the resilience of poor women in the face of poverty. Beliefs about demons that invade the body and thereby cause illness derive from 'formal' as well as 'popular' Islam. Affected women find relief in the Zar ceremony or in a session of Koran healing.

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