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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Marcus-Sells, Ariela, 1985- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press [2022]
Series:Magic in history.
Subjects:
Kuntī, al-Mukhtār ibn Aḥmad, > 1729 or 1730-1811.
Kuntī, Muḥammad bin al-Mukhtār, > 1765-1826.
Islamic magic > Sahara > History.
Sufism.
Sufism > Sahara > History.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009757908006719
Table of Contents:
  • The visible world
  • The realms of the unseen
  • The sciences of the unseen
  • Bridging the worlds in prayer.

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