Author: Waugh, Earle H.
Title: The Munshidin of Egypt: Their World and Their Song
Description: Columbia [South Carolina], Univ.of South Carolina Press, (1989). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xvii, 246 pp. Textual musical illus.. Minor rubbing. Slight bump to top spine-edge. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: The Munshid's Settings: Religio-Cultural Rituals; The Religious State of Mind: Reality & Values in the Munshid's World; The Repertoire: The Munshid's Madih and Wasa'id; The Musical Tradition: Types & Techniques;The Munshid, Music, & Models of Reality in Dhikr Rituals; Appendices: List of Tapes; List on Munshidin's Music Sourcebooks; Drum Hand Positions; Music: Relation of Drumming to Choir; List of Turuq; Transliteration of Yaseen's and Tuni's Songs.

Keywords: Ethnomusicology, Munshidin Minshid, Sufi Music Egypt, Anthropology Africa, Islamic Mysticism, Islam Sociology, Ethnography Rituals, Comparative Sufis, Religion Religious