Sorcery or Science? : Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts

Sorcery or Science? Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts

"Examines the works of two Sufi Muslim scholars, Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son Sīdi Muḥammad (d. 1826), focusing on their cosmology and metaphysics of the realm of the unseen, in relation to the history of magical discourses within the Hellenistic and Arabo-Islamic worlds&...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Marcus-Sells, Ariela, 1985- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press [2022]
Colección:Magic in history.
Materias:
Kuntī, al-Mukhtār ibn Aḥmad, > 1729 or 1730-1811.
Kuntī, Muḥammad bin al-Mukhtār, > 1765-1826.
Islamic magic > Sahara > History.
Sufism.
Sufism > Sahara > History.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009757908006719
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Sumario:"Examines the works of two Sufi Muslim scholars, Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son Sīdi Muḥammad (d. 1826), focusing on their cosmology and metaphysics of the realm of the unseen, in relation to the history of magical discourses within the Hellenistic and Arabo-Islamic worlds"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (233 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780271093062
9780271093079

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