Is listening a performance? How do “invisible” practices like Sufi Muslim sama', or sacred listening, impact the public and secular spaces of contemporary France? What do listening acts reveal about the political viability and performativity of sacred listening in a secular nation?

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©2013 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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An excerpt of samaa’

Sampled from the author’s field recordings. Courtesy of Deborah Kapchan.

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