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Doubt, scholarship and society in 17th century central Sudanic Africa / by Dorrit van Dalen.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Dalen, Dorrit van, author.
Contributor:
Brill Online Books and Journals.
Alec Harris & Carollina Song Fund.
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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