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Gnawa and Islamic culture

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Difference between Gnawa and Islamic culture

Gnawa vs. Islamic culture

The Gnawa (or Gnaoua, Ghanawa, Ghanawi, Gnawi) are an ethnic group inhabiting Morocco and Algeria in the Maghreb. Islamic culture is a term primarily used in secular academia to describe the cultural practices common to historically Islamic people -- i.e., the culture of the Islamicate.

Similarities between Gnawa and Islamic culture

Gnawa and Islamic culture have 2 things in common (in Unionpedia): Maghreb, Sufism.

Maghreb

The Maghreb (al-Maɣréb lit.), also known as the Berber world, Barbary, Berbery, and Northwest Africa, is a major region of North Africa that consists primarily of the countries Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania.

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Sufism

Sufism, or Taṣawwuf (personal noun: ṣūfiyy / ṣūfī, mutaṣawwuf), variously defined as "Islamic mysticism",Martin Lings, What is Sufism? (Lahore: Suhail Academy, 2005; first imp. 1983, second imp. 1999), p.15 "the inward dimension of Islam" or "the phenomenon of mysticism within Islam",Massington, L., Radtke, B., Chittick, W. C., Jong, F. de, Lewisohn, L., Zarcone, Th., Ernst, C, Aubin, Françoise and J.O. Hunwick, “Taṣawwuf”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, edited by: P. Bearman, Th.

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Gnawa and Islamic culture Comparison

Gnawa has 32 relations, while Islamic culture has 209. As they have in common 2, the Jaccard index is 0.83% = 2 / (32 + 209).

References

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