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Sorcery or Science? : Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts / Ariela Marcus-Sells.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marcus-Sells, Ariela, 1985- author.
- Series:
- Magic in history.
- Magic in History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kuntī, al-Mukhtār ibn Aḥmad, 1729 or 1730-1811.
- Kuntī, al-Mukhtār ibn Aḥmad.
- Kuntī, Muḥammad bin al-Mukhtār, 1765-1826.
- Kuntī, Muḥammad bin al-Mukhtār.
- Islamic magic--Sahara--History.
- Islamic magic.
- Sufism.
- Sufism--Sahara--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Penn State University Press 2022
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Examines the works of two Sufi Muslim scholars, Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son Sīdi Muḥammad (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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The visible world
- The realms of the unseen
- The sciences of the unseen
- Bridging the worlds in prayer.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Marcus-Sells, Ariela Sorcery or Science?
- ISBN:
- 9780271093062
- 9780271093079
- OCLC:
- 1302111184
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