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In Amma`s Healing Room: Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India

	In Amma`S Healing Room: Gender And Vernacular Islam In South India by Joyce Fluekcige
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ISBN-- 978178242095 In Amma`s Healing Room is a vivid and compelling study of the life and thought of a female Muslim spiritual leader, who lives and practices in the city of Hyderabad in South India. Referred to as Amma, she meets a diverse clienele that includes men as well as women, and people of various religious and social backgrounds: Amma advises her disciplies, Who came to her with different problems. She declares that the most importnat distinction among humans is that of gender and not relition. However, She practices i n a traditionally male ritual role, and continually tries to recreate and maintain her authority as healer to meet the public

Pages : 320