Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani was the author of several significant books on Shia jurisprudence. He was born in 1919 in Golpayegan and died from cardiac arrest on 1 February 2022, at the age of 103.
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Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara situates battles over the meaning and control of Islamic esoteric knowledge (ḥjāb) in Mauritania's history of racial and political struggles dating to the pre-colonial era. Innovatively using contemporary social media alongside traditional textual and oral sources, Pettigrew reveals the resilience and adaptability of both ḥjāb power and practitioners. ‘Magic' in Mauritania has not disappeared; it has become a marketable commodity....
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