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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ariela Marcus-Sells, Ariela (Elon University) Marcus-Sells
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.03.2022
• EAN: 9780271092294
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09229-4
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Karten
• Series: Magic in History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; 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