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

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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Main Author: Marcus-Sells, Ariela, 1985- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
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