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Ambient Sufism is a study of the intertwined musical lives of several ritual communities in Tunisia that invoke the healing powers of long-deceased Muslim saints through music-driven trance rituals. Richard C. Jankowsky illuminates the virtually undocumented role of women and minorities in shaping the ritual musical landscape of the region, with case studies on men’s and women’s Sufi orders, Jewish and black Tunisian healing musical troupes, and the popular music of hard-drinking laborers, as we
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- Author
- Richard C. Jankowsky
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226723501
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- History, Music, Arts
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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