Sorcery or science?: Contesting knowledge and practice in West African Sufi texts
The visible world -- The realms of the unseen -- The sciences of the unseen -- Bridging the worlds in prayer.
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2022]
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Series/Journal: | The magic in history series
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Africa
/ Islam
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| Further subjects: | B
Sufism (Sahara)
History
B Kuntī, Muḥammad bin al-Mukhtār (1765-1826) B Islamic magic (Sahara) History B Kuntī, al-Mukhtār ibn Aḥmad (1729 or 1730-1811) |
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| Summary: | The visible world -- The realms of the unseen -- The sciences of the unseen -- Bridging the worlds in prayer. "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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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0271092300 |