Guangtian Ha's The Sound of Salvation offers crucial insight into the contemporary lifeworld of Sufi Muslims in northwestern China. The first published book-length treatment of the Jahriyya order in English, Ha's book briefly covers the history of the Jahriyya and their polyphonic recitation variances, which are a consequence of historical displacement and persecution.1 The book's main contribution, however, lies in its rich ethnographical detail regarding current Jahriyya's gendered organization of religious ritual and how the community has more recently fared in the face of China's breathtaking urbanization, the saturation of mass media, and the state's unabashed promotion of cultural majoritarianism. Thanks to Ha's elaborate and precise prose, which is peppered with sardonic humor, the book sustains readers’ attention throughout the pages. It particularly excels in demonstrating the usefulness of the Jahriyya's cultural eccentricity for complicating the study of orality/aurality in Islam; the importance of bodily rituals, and their capacity...

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