Realizing Islam, Sustainable History Monograph Pilot OA Edition : The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World /

"The Tijaniyya is the largest Sufi order in West and North Africa. In this unprecedented analysis of the Tijaniyya's origins and development in the late eighteenth century, Zachary Valentine Wright situates the order within the broader intellectual history of Islam in the early modern period. While...

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Auteur principal: Wright, Zachary Valentine (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:anglais
Publié: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Collection:Islamic civilization & Muslim networks.
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Résumé:"The Tijaniyya is the largest Sufi order in West and North Africa. In this unprecedented analysis of the Tijaniyya's origins and development in the late eighteenth century, Zachary Valentine Wright situates the order within the broader intellectual history of Islam in the early modern period. While introducing the group's founder, Ahmad al-Tijani (1735-1815), Wright's focus is on the wider network in which the order developed-a veritable global Islamic revival whose scholars commanded large followings, shared key ideas, and produced literature read widely throughout the Muslim world. They were linked, Wright shows, through chains of knowledge transmission in the face of widespread Muslim prejudice against Sufism"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469660844
Accès:Open Access