Popular Islam

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As popular Islam is called a blended with popular pagan elements form of Islam , especially in non-Arab peoples of Africa and Asia.

Popular belief or popular piety , veneration of saints or relics (e.g. hand of Fatima or Ali's beard in the Blue Mosque ), pre-Islamic popular belief (e.g. spirits ) and elements of animism partly overlay the content handed down through the Koran and Sunna of Islam.

Sufism is characteristic of both African popular Islam and various forms of Asian popular Islam , and marabouts also play a role in Africa .

Muslims who follow an Islam that is strictly oriented towards the core Islamic traditions interpret popular Islam as shirk and reject it; neo-fundamentalist currents have emerged as a reaction .

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literature

  • Amber B. Gemmeke: Marabout women in Dakar. Creating trust in a rural urban space. (= Mande worlds Vol. 3) Leiden 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1349-9 (= Diss. Leiden 2008).
  • Kornelius Hentschel: Spirits, magicians and Muslims: the world of demons and the expulsion of spirits in Islam . Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01354-4 .
  • Max Horten : The religious thought world of the people in Islam today. 2 vols. 1917-1918. ( Digitized at archive.org ).
  • Rudolf Kriss , Hubert Kriss-Heinrich: Popular belief in the area of ​​Islam. 2 vols. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1960–1962.

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