Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Sainthood in Fragile States -- Part One Sustained Sainthood -- Contesting Fragile Saintly Traditions: Miraculous Healing among Twelver Shi'is in Contemporary Syria -- Saints, Media and Minority Cultures: On Coptic Cults of Egyptian Revolution from Alexandria to Maspero -- Part Two Contested Representations -- Enigmas of a Pakistani Warrior Saint: Interrogating Media Conspiracies in an Age of Terror -- The Samer, the Saint and the Shaman: Ordering Bedouin Heritage in Jordan -- Part Three Indeterminate Sainthood -- Our Lady of Soufanieh: On Knowledge, Ignorance and Indifference among the Christians of Damascus -- Ecstatic Sainthood and Austere Sunni Islam: A majzūb in Northern Pakistan -- Part Four Secular Sainthood -- Imbued with Agency: Contesting Notions of the Extraordinariness of Türkan Saylan -- The Secular Saint: Iconography and Ideology in the Cult of Bashir Jumayil -- Index.