Publications of Patrick Desplat

Desplat, Patrick. 2022. Doubting the Malagasy remedy: rumours and suspicion during COVID-19 in Madagascar. Slovak Ethnology 70(3): 411–429. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/SN.2022.3.32.

Desplat, Patrick. 2022. Facing familiar strangers and potential friends: rumours of betrayal, ambiguous friendships and the dangers of poison in urban Madagascar. Journal of Southern African studies 48(4): 667–684. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2022.2091350.

Desplat, Patrick. 2018. Closed circles of mistrust: envy, aspirations and urban sociality in coastal Madagascar. Africa 88(S1): 117–139. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972017001176.

Desplat, Patrick. 2016. 'Heard about the good-deed-sayers?' Islam and everyday conversations on religious difference in Harar, Ethiopia. Journal for Islamic Studies 35(1): 11–42.

Desplat, Patrick. 2012. Beyond the politics of 'Othering': shifting representations of Christian-Muslim relations in Ethiopia. Orient 53(1): 6–11.

Desplat, Patrick. 2005. The articulation of religious identities and their boundaries in Ethiopia: labeling difference and processes of contextualisation in Islam. Journal of Religion in Africa 35(4): 482–505. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/157006605774832171.

Desplat, Patrick. 2005. Äthiopien: Diaspora am Horn von Afrika? Informationsprojekt Naher und Mittlerer Osten (41): 4–8.

Desplat, Patrick. 2002. Muslime in Äthiopien: Die Heiligenverehrung in Harar in Auseinandersetzung mit islamischen Reformströmungen. Africa Spectrum 37(2): 141–157.

Desplat, Patrick. 2022. On belongings and betrayals: migratory projects and moral obligations among youth in Mahajanga/Madagascar. In: Ian Walker and Marie-Aude Fouéré (eds.). Across the waves: strategies of belonging in Indian Ocean island societies. African Social Studies Series 44. Leiden, Boston: Brill, pp. 127–156.

Desplat, Patrick. 2019. Madagascar. In: Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Devin J. Stewart (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam 3. 3. ed. Leiden: Brill, pp. 125–131.

Desplat, Patrick. 2019. Lidj Iyasu. In: Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Devin Stewart (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam 3. 3. ed. Leiden: Brill, pp. 120–122.

Desplat, Patrick. 2018. Jimma. In: Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Devin Stewart (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam 2. 3. ed. Leiden: Brill, pp. 138–139.

Desplat, Patrick. 2016. Harar. In: Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Devin J. Stewart (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam. 3. ed. Leiden: Brill, pp. 77–80.

Desplat, Patrick. 2016. Ḥusayn, Shaykh. In: Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Devin J. Stewart (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam 5. 3. ed. Leiden: Brill, pp. 102–105.

Desplat, Patrick. 2016. East Africa. In: Richard C. Martin (ed.). Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World 1. 2. ed. Farmington Hills: Gale, pp. 311–318.

Desplat, Patrick. 2014. Dire Dawa. In: Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Devin J. Stewart (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam 1. 3. ed. Leiden: Brill, pp. 94–95.

Desplat, Patrick. 2013. Against wahabism? Islamic reform, ambivalence and sentiments of loss in Harar. In: Patrick Desplat and Terje Østebø (eds.). Muslim Ethiopia: the Christian legacy, identity politics, and Islamic reformism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 163–184.

Desplat, Patrick. 2013. al-Hararī, 'Abdallāh b. Muhammad b. Yūsuf. In: Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Devin J. Stewart (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam 2. 3. ed. Leiden: Brill, pp. 133–134.

Desplat, Patrick and Terje Østebø. 2013. Muslims in Ethiopia: the Christian legacy, identity politics and Islamic reformism. In: Patrick Desplat and Terje Østebø (eds.). Muslim Ethiopia: the Christian legacy, identity politics, and Islamic reformism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1–21.

Desplat, Patrick. 2012. Introduction: representations of space, place-making and urban life in Muslim societies. In: Patrick Desplat and Dorothea E. Schulz (eds.). Prayer in the city: the making of Muslim sacred places and urban life 314 p. Global local Islam. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 9–34.

Desplat, Patrick. 2008. The making of a 'Harari' city in Ethiopia: constructing and contesting saintly places in Harar. In: Georg Stauth and Samuli Schielke (eds.). Dimensions of locality: Muslim saints, their place and space. Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam 8. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 149–168.

Desplat, Patrick. 2003. Islamic scholars between text and practise: the contextualisation of Islam and the Muslim community of Harar/Ethiopia. In: Eva-Maria Bruchhaus (ed.). Hot spot Horn of Africa: between integration and disintegration. Afrikanische Studien 9. Münster: LIT, pp. 48–53.

Desplat, Patrick. 2006. Islamische Gelehrte zwischen Text und Praxis: Wandlungsprozesse im Islam am Beispiel von Kenia, Ostafrika. Arbeitspapier des Instituts für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz 16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-592.

Desplat, Patrick and Terje Østebø (eds.). 2013. Muslim Ethiopia: the Christian legacy, identity politics, and Islamic reformism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Desplat, Patrick and Dorothea E. Schulz (eds.). 2012. Prayer in the city: the making of Muslim sacred places and urban life. Global local Islam. Bielefeld: transcript.

Desplat, Patrick. 2010. Heilige Stadt – Stadt der Heiligen: Ambivalenzen und Kontroversen des islamischer Heiligkeit in Harar, Äthiopien. Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 24. Köln: Köppe.