This article is a feminist ethnographic exploration of how ‘indigenous’ notions ‘sacred feminine’ shape Sufi praxis on the island Lombok in eastern part Indonesia Southeast Asia. I demonstrate through long-term immersive anthropological fieldwork her indigenous form as Dewi Anjani ‘Spirit Queen Jinn’ and ‘Holy Saint Allah’ who rules from Mount Rinjani, together with living female saint Murshida...

In mystical ethics, some virtues have a foundational role in relation to other virtues; that is, other virtues are in some ways dependent on, conditional to, or rooted in them. This is a gradational concept, and therefore one can speak of foundational and more foundational among foundational virtues in mysticism. Honesty is the most foundational virtue in mystical ethics, and other virtues are ...

Service de Médecine et Réanimation Néonatale, PV, HER, Chis Ibn Sina, Commission de Formation Médicale Continue Université Mohammed V, Faculté de Médecine et Pharmacie, Équipe de Recherche en Santé et Nutrition du Couple Mère Enfant, Unité Mixte de Recherche en Nutrition et Alimentation URAC 39, Université Ibn Tofail-CNESTEN, RDC-Nutrition AFRA/AIEA, Morrocco, Service des Urgences Chirurgicales...

highlights the extent to which the Greek medical tradition has been assimilated, even at the level of popular and religious medical writing. Unfortunately, Al-Akili's translation is wildly exegetical; in some passages more than half of the content of the translation is not to be found in the Arabic. On contagion, for example, one tradition simply states the following: "In the delegation of [the...

Findings – The analysis shows that instead of discussing one notion of participation, the archival science literature is refering to nine different and partly conflicting types of participation from three broad perspectives: management, empowerment and technology. The discourses have also conflicting ideas of the role of engagement and enthusiasm, and of that what do the different stakeholder c...