“Both ethnography and personal testimony, Ninety-Nine opens a window onto the many ways Egyptian Muslims reflect on, relate to, and encounter God across their daily lives. Through this intimate account, one comes to see that the divine is not an answer to the question of existence but itself a question, one that invites as many responses as there are lives from which to ask it.”—Charles K. Hirschkind, Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley
“This is a moving, poetic, elegant and beautifully written book about how people experience God in Egypt. It is a reflection on how God is felt and heard and seen, and thus, about how God is held in the awareness of God’s followers in richly varied ways. Sometimes secular observers think that the main anthropological question about religion is belief. This book show us how flat-footed that perspective can be.”—T.M. Luhrmann, author of How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others
