Doumato, Eleanor Abdella, <br/><br/>
Getting God's ear :  women, Islam, and healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf /  [print] 
Eleanor Abdella Doumato. 
 - New York :  Columbia University Press,  (c)2000. 
 - xii, 312 pages, 16. pages of plates :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
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<br/><br/> Introduction: Making Connections: Knowledge, Rituals, and Healing  --  Women and Religious Learning: Piety and a Matter of Propriety  --  Prayer, the Mosque, and the Ways Women Worship  --  The Healing Power of Words: Ink, Spit, and Holy Speech  --  Engaging Spirits: Prophylaxis, Witchcraft, Exorcisms, Trial by Ordeal, and Zar  --  When Words Fail: Surgeries, Smells, and Salt Packing  --  Conclusion: Community, Gender, and the Spiritual Experience  --  Epilogue: Saudi Arabia, 1998  --  The Scene of the Action for Getting God's Ear. 
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<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>99035113 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women--Social conditions--Saudi Arabia--20th century.<br/>Women--Religious life--History--Saudi Arabia--20th century.<br/>Women healers--History--Saudi Arabia--20th century.<br/>Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--History--Saudi Arabia--20th century.<br/>Wahhabiyah--History--Saudi Arabia--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1730.D738.G488 2000