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259 Index ‘Abd al-Latif, Muhammad Fahmi, 122–25, 136 al-‘Abdari, ibn al-Hajj, 112 ‘Abduh, Muhammad, 114–15 Abu al-Qasim, Sidi, 181 Abu l-‘Aza’im, Sidi Muhammad Madi, 168–69 adab, 116–17, 125, 162, 209. See also civilization aesthetics, 30, 170, 190–95, 205–6 al-‘Agami, Sidi, 35 ahl al-bayt, 23, 45, 57–58, 61–64, 70, 142, 154, 156, 160, 209 ‘Alam al-Din, Sheikh, 155 alcohol, 30–31, 89, 91, 182 Alexandria, 42, 166, 175, 179, 184 Alexandria Library, 175, 192 alienation, 198 Allah. See God Allah! (exclamation of admiration), 31, 49, 147–48 alterity. See otherness ambiguity, xii, 42–48, 62, 66, 136–37, 144; affirmation of, 155–56; of beautification projects, 194–95; as key characteristic of mulids, 71–79; as violation of boundaries, 93–94 ambivalence: affirmation of, 143, 152–55; of festive experience, 17, 66, 73, 204; neutralization of, 141, 146; as opposed to religion and modernity, 81, 83, 93–97, 108–10 Americans, 117, 179 amusement, 28–29, 32, 43–44, 68–70, 75; ambivalence toward, 101–2, 171; policing of amusement areas, 176–77, 186–89; rejection of, 82, 91–92, 96–97, 163; transformation of, 182–84, 198–99; as way to mobilize the masses, 62–63 Anglo-Saxons, 115, 123 anthropology, 128–29, 133, 137–38, 140, 145, 201 appearance: equated with attitudes, 97–99, 191–92; opposed to essence, 62–63; opposed to intentions, 156–57, 161; of order, 175, 191; of people at mulids, 39, 183. See also zahir appearances/phenomena (mazahir), 87–88, 98–99, 102, 123, 156, 192, 205 Arabic language: classical, 19, 171; Egyptian colloquial, xi, 19, 209; translation into, 115, 203 Arabs, 103 ‘Arafa (mountain), 43 Names are cited including honorific titles (Sidi, Sidna, al-Sayyida, al-Sayyid, Dr., al-Hagga, Brigadier-General) when a title appears as an integral part of the name in the text. 260  Index ’araguz (play), 33, 145, 147–48, 209 argumentation, xi, 85–87, 100, 105, 111–17, 152–54; argumentative rhetoric, 124; in defense of mulids, 156–59, 162–64; persistent forms of, 121 Aristotle, 37–38 art, 136–39, 145–46 Asad, Talal, 119–21, 129 Aslam Silahdar Square, 28, 32 authenticity, 85, 100–101, 140–41; in union with progress, 107, 124–25 authority, 61–62, 76, 134–35; and fame, 173 avant-garde, 126 awliya‘ Allah. See saints al-Azhar, 10–12, 86, 152–53, 209 al-Azmiya (Sufi order), 165, 167–70 backwardness, 81–83, 100–109, 115–18, 127–28 al-Badawi, al-Sayyid Ahmad, 20, 22, 39, 58, 61, 172, 176–77 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 14, 17, 54, 60, 73–74, 76, 108 al-Bakri, Sheikh ‘Abd al-Baqi, 165, 180 ballet, 147 baraka, 23–24, 41–45, 92–94, 158, 209 bars, 30, 157, 183 barzakh, 45, 209 batin, 45, 63, 98–99, 156–57, 205, 209. See also zahir al-Batiniya Quarter, 22 Bayat, Asef, 6 beautification, 184–87, 190–93 beggars, 47, 147 belief, 123; equated with appearances, 98, 103, 192, 205; and habitus, 38–39; popular (see religion, popular) believer, 23, 115, 135, 202, 204 Bibliotheca Alexandrina. See Alexandria Library bid‘a, 3, 85–88, 112–15, 128, 153–54, 209 Biegman, Nicolaas, 9 blessing. See baraka Bonaparte, Napoleon, 101 Bourdieu, Pierre, 37, 205 “bread and games,” 17, 52 Britain, 102, 115, 117–19 bumper cars, 163 bureaucracy, 27, 183, 202 Burhaniya (Sufi order), 26, 49 bus, 46; bus stop, 43, 81, 102, 185 butcher, 67, 131 café, 28–30, 148, 165, 177 Cairo, 2, 9, 15–16, 19, 21–22, 25–27, 32–35, 42, 44, 59, 64–65, 69, 82, 94, 98, 102, 115, 146–48, 169, 171, 173–74, 179, 180, 182, 184, 190, 198–200 calendar, solar and lunar, 21, 215n3 Calvino, Italo, 5, 202–3 cannabis, 71, 179, 182, 209 carnival, 53, 65–66, 73–74, 78, 142, 220n2 carousel, 5, 32 celebration, 203–4; different ways of, 44–49, 55–56, 88; habitus of, 35–42; legitimizing, 152–59; of mulid, 28–35; official, 91, 151, 168–70, 186; overlapping circles of, 43, 56, 93, 109, 190 change of atmosphere, 49, 59, 68, 155 chaos, 35–36, 102–4 chickpeas, 37, 41, 85, 91–93, 198, 200, 206 Chih, Rachida, 13 children, 29, 32–33, 91, 137, 147, 166, 171, 188 Christianity, 1, 8, 15–16, 19, 20–23, 72, 103, 106, 141–44, 210–11; Catholic, 4, 23, 53, 66, 78; Orthodox, 23, 53...

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