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

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"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
Autor principal: Marcus-Sells, Ariela, 1985- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Kuntī, al-Mukhtār ibn Aḥmad, > 1729 or 1730-1811.
Kuntī, Muḥammad bin al-Mukhtār, > 1765-1826.
Sufism.
Islamic magic.
Sufism > Sahara > History.
Islamic magic > Sahara > History.
Sahara.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The visible world
  • The realms of the unseen
  • The sciences of the unseen
  • Bridging the worlds in prayer.

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