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 September 2013

Healing the Body, Healing the Umma: Sufi  Saints and God’s Law in a Corporeal City of  Virtue

by Ellen Amster (University of Wisconsin,  Milwaukee)

With invited responses by:

Shahzad Bashir (Stanford University); and
Neil Kodesh (University of Wisconsin, Madison).

 

“Healing the Body, Healing the Umma” is an excerpt from Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956 (Copyright © 2013, University of Texas Press). For more information visit www.utexaspress.com.