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Doubt, scholarship and society in 17th century central Sudanic Africa / by Dorrit van Dalen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dalen, Dorrit van, author.
- Series:
- Islam in Africa ; v. 20.
- Islam in africa ; v. 20
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wālī, Muḥammad al-Wālī ibn Sulaymān ibn Abī Muḥammad, active 1688.
- Wālī, Muḥammad al-Wālī ibn Sulaymān ibn Abī Muḥammad.
- Muslim scholars--Sudan--Biography.
- Muslim scholars.
- Intellectual life.
- Sudan--Intellectual life--17th century.
- Sudan.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- One man in his environment
- Coordinates
- Intellectual history and philology
- Peripheries
- Sources and structure
- Dramatis loci
- A history of Bornu and Baghirmi as Islamic states
- The spread of Islam
- Ethnicity, religion, slavery
- Islam and traditional religions
- Conclusion
- Muhammad al-Wali
- Biography
- Works
- Reputation
- Education
- The scholar's habitat
- Scholarship
- Religious leadership
- Intellectual environment: genres
- Intellectual environment: themes
- Method and message
- Al-Sanusi's Sughra
- The kabbe
- Between oral and scholarly text
- Tradition with a twist
- Demonising smokers
- How tobacco conquered the Islamic lands
- Al-Wali's point of view
- A folktale about the devil's piss
- From Abgar to al-Azhar
- On writing
- Author and authority
- Why did al-Wali translate the Fulani commentary?
- From orality to literacy
- Knowing and the knower.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alec Harris & Carollina Song Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Dalen, Dorrit van, author. Doubt, scholarship and society in 17th century central Sudanic Africa.
- ISBN:
- 9789004324480
- 9004324488
- OCLC:
- 949912283
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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