Sorcery or science? : contesting knowledge and practice in West African Sufi texts /
"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&...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2022]
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Series: | Magic in history.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The visible world
- The realms of the unseen
- The sciences of the unseen
- Bridging the worlds in prayer.