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

• Yazar: Marcus-Sells, Ariela (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Penn State University Press 2022
• Konular: African history
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Sorcery or Science? examines how two Sufi Muslim theologians who rose to prominence in the western Sahara Desert in the late eighteenth century, Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son and successor, Sīdi Muḥammad al-Kuntī (d. 1826), decisively influenced the development of Sufi Muslim...