Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-43680-8
Ph.D.
Anthropology
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2014
Mushaf (read with 's' and 'h' separately) is what Muslims call the physical body of the Quran, its pages, binding, and print. In contrast to earlier works on the holy book of Muslims, in my dissertation I shift from studying the Quranic text exclusively as message to its corporeal existence as an object in the hands of its manufacturers and users in Egypt, treating its production and consumption as meaning-making processes.
Religion; Cultural anthropology; Middle Eastern Studies
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Egypt;Materiality;Mushaf;Qur'an;Technology