Tacit Textuality
Drinking the Qurʾan in Zanzibar Town
$118.96
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2026
Summary
An ethnography about the practice of ingesting the Qur’an as medicine in Zanzibar
Tacit Textuality is an ethnography about the practice of kombe in Zanzibar, in which Qurʾanic verses are liquefied and consumed across religious divides for afflicted bodies to be healed. Primarily based on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in two Zanzibari healing rooms, the book investigates three foci. Firstly, it delves into the minute details of preparing kombe–its …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781512830088 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1512830089 |
| Author: | Hanna Nieber |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Imprint: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Hanna Nieber
Hanna Nieber is Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. She has previously published work in the Max Planck Research magazine.
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