
Les zabbalin du Muqattam
The Cairene garbage collectors (the Zabbalin) settled on the Muqattam slopes in 1970. Soon they attracted the attention of different actors involved in development and religious mission: Egyptian engineers, a French Catholic Sister and the most central character of this story, Father Sam?an, who started a mission among the Zabbalin in 1974. This preacher founded several churches, today known as the Monastery of Saint Sam?an the Tanner, a complex of seven churches carved in the Muqattam walls. Through his charismatic style of preaching and his public exorcisms symbolically staging the struggle between Christianity and Islam, Sam?an has become a figurehead of his church.
- Undertitel
- Ethnohistoire d’une hétérotopie au Caire (979-2021)
- Författare
- Gaétan du Roy
- ISBN
- 9789004420151
- Språk
- Arabiska
- Vikt
- 775 gram
- Utgivningsdatum
- 2022-04-01
- Förlag
- BRILL
- Sidor
- 376
