The light of the Prophet Muhammad: An audiovisual and microphenomenological journey

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1 I warmly recommend Amira Mittermaier’s recent book Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times (University of California Press, 2019), about these practices of “giving to God” in contemporary Egypt.

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Christian Suhr

Christian Suhr is associate professor of anthropology at Aarhus University. He is author of Descending with Angels: Islamic Exorcism and Psychiatry, a Film Monograph (Manchester University Press 2019). He is co-editor of Transcultural Montage (Berghahn 2013) and three special journal issues. In addition, he is director and co-director of four award-winning ethnographic films. Email: [email protected]