Stamping the Earth with the Name of Allah: Zikr and the Sacralizing of Space among British Muslims

Given the complex symbolic connotations that space and place are endowed with, it is to be expected that the conquest of space--its inscription with a new moral and cultural surface--will be regarded as an act of human empowerment. Werbner discusses such a contemporary and historical process of reli...

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Caves
Connotation
Cultural anthropology
Culture
Empowerment
Great Britain
Identity
Immigration
Islam
Mosques
Muslims
Pakistan
Pakistani communities
Prayer
Processions
Religious Movements
Religious rituals
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Spatial aspects
Spatial dimension
Sufism
Transnationalism
United Kingdom
Wilderness
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