Sorcery or science? : contesting knowledge and practice in West African Sufi texts

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Title
"Sorcery or science? : contesting knowledge and practice in West African Sufi texts"
Statement of Responsibility
Ariela Marcus-Sells
Publisher
  • The Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication Year
  • c2022
Book size
25 cm
Series Name / No
  • : cloth

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Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-199) and index

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

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