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Doubt, scholarship and society in 17th century central Sudanic Africa /
The seventeenth century was a period of major social change in central sudanic Africa. Islam spread from royal courts to rural communities, leading to new identities, new boundaries and new tasks for experts of the religion. Addressing these issues, the Bornu scholar Muḥammad al-Wālī acquired an...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2016]
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| Series: | Islam in africa ;
v. 20 |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- One man in his environment
- Coordinates
- Intellectual history and philology
- Peripheries
- Sources and structure
- Dramatis loci
- A history of Bornu and Baghirmi as Islamic states
- The spread of Islam
- Ethnicity, religion, slavery
- Islam and traditional religions
- Conclusion
- Muhammad al-Wali
- Biography
- Works
- Reputation
- Education
- Conclusion
- The scholar's habitat
- Scholarship
- Religious leadership
- Intellectual environment: genres
- Intellectual environment: themes
- Conclusion
- Method and message
- Al-Sanusi's Sughra
- The kabbe
- Between oral and scholarly text
- Tradition with a twist
- Conclusion
- Demonising smokers
- How tobacco conquered the Islamic lands
- Al-Wali's point of view
- A folktale about the devil's piss
- From Abgar to al-Azhar
- Conclusion
- On writing
- Author and authority
- Why did al-Wali translate the Fulani commentary?
- From orality to literacy
- Knowing and the knower.