El-Tom, Abdullahi (1987) Berti Qur’anic Amulets. Journal of Religion in africa, 17. pp. 224-244. ISSN 0022-4200
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Abstract
The Berti live in the Province of North Darfur in the Sudan.
They are sedentary people whose main livelihood is based on rain
cultivation and animal husbandry (for more details on the Berti see
Holy 1974). For several centuries the Berti have spoken their own
dialect of the Arabic language. They are Muslim, following the
Maliki school of Islamic Law. Among the Berti, Islam is
disseminated and taught by their religious men, locally referred to
fugara, a term translated as jurisconsults, clergymen, Sufi mendicants or religious officiants (see Trimingham 1949:140, 1968:61
and 130; Yusuf 1976:116; among others). As professionals, Berti
religious men render a variety of services to their clients. They
teach the Qur’an, preside over rituals, and treat the sick. In this article I shall restrict myself to the provision of ‘amulets’ which are
believed to help their owners to achieve certain objectives.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Berti; North Darfur; Qur’anic Amulets; Maliki school; Religion; Africa; Muslim; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Anthropology |
Item ID: | 8361 |
Depositing User: | Dr Abdullahi El-Tom |
Date Deposited: | 22 Jun 2017 09:06 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Religion in africa |
Publisher: | Brill Academic Publishers |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/8361 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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