Rooted in West and Central African, Amerindian, and popular Catholic influences, Candomblé constitutes a set of ritual practices that cohered among enslaved Africans and their descendants on Brazil’s sugar plantations between the 16th and 19th centuries. Across a range of tradit…
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This study argues that mysticism, as found in representations of sanctity (walaya ) in Sufi philosophy and practice formed the basis of schema of leadership among the Egyptian elite and politics through a case study of Abu al-Anwar al-Sadat, head of the Wafa'i brotherhood in Egy…