‘They all just want to get healthy!’ Drinking the Qur’an between forming religious and medical subjectivities in Zanzibar
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DOI: 10.1177/1359183517729427
Abstract: This article investigates how the practice of drinking kombe (drinking washed off Qur’anic verses) informs subjectivities in the nexus of ‘religion’, ‘medicine’ and their Swahili approximations dini and dawa. Situated in Zanzibar, it is mostly… read more here.
Keywords: drinking; medicine; zanzibar; drinking qur ... See more keywords