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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Ariela Marcus-Sells is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University.

Zusammenfassung

Examines the works of two Sufi Muslim scholars, Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti (d. 1811) and his son Sidi Mu?ammad (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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ariela Marcus-Sells, Ariela (Elon University) Marcus-Sells
• Verlag: University Presses
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 08.03.2022
• EAN: 9780271092294
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09229-4
• Abmessung: 156 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Gewicht: 522 g
• Illustration: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Karten
• Serie: Magic in History
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, RELIGION / Islam / Sufi, HISTORY / Africa / West, RELIGION / Religion & Science, RELIGION / Mysticism, mysticism, African History, West Africa, Religion and science, Religion & science, Christian Mysticism, Sufism & Islamic Mysticism, Islamic groups: Sufis