Nieber (Hanna), Tacit Textuality: Drinking the Qurʾan in Zanzibar Town, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2027, 256 p. ISBN 978-1512830088

Author

Hanna Nieber is Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. She has previously published work in the Max Planck Research magazine.

Presentation

Tacit Textuality is an ethnography about the practice of kombe in Zanzibar, in which Qurʾanic verses are liquefied and consumed as medicine across religious divides. It combines three foci: kombe’s materiality, its social context that includes interreligious relations, and its repercussions on ethnographic writing.

Online Thesis (2020) : https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/391794/5e26c060c4568.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y