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Paola Abenante
Columbia University
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Primary Phone: +14848491840
Secondary Phone: +14848491840
Italian Academy
Columbia University 1161, Amsterdam Ave.
New York NY 10027
United States
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Middle East/Near East Studies
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Cultural Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Europe
Sudan
Specialties
Muslim Subjectivities And Body Discipline
Sufism And Modernity In Egypt
Media In The Transmission Of Islamic Knowledge
Languages
English (fluent)
French (fluent)
Arabic (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2010 | Human sciences; Anthropology | university of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Abstracts
The ambiguity of virtue: individual expectations and forms of sociality within a pious life in Cairo Zahir-Batin and ‘Modern’ Sufi Islam: the vocabulary and experience of ‘moderness’ in a contemporary Egyptian Sufi brotherhood