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

• Hoofdauteur: µarcus-Sells, Ariela (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Pennsylvania State University Press 2022
• Reeks: Magic in History
• Onderwerpen: African history; Sufism & Islamic mysticism; Mysticism; History; African Studies; Religion
• Online toegang: 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...