Sorcery or Science?: Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts
Sorcery or Science? examines how two Sufi Muslim theologians who rose to prominence in the western Sahara Desert in the late eighteenth century, Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son and successor, Sīdi Muḥammad al-Kuntī (d. 1826), decisively influenced the development of Sufi Muslim though...
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University Park, PA
Penn State University Press
[2022]
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Series/Journal: | Magic in History
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Sufism (Sahara)
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B West / Africa / HISTORY B Islamic magic (Sahara) History |
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| 505 | 8 | 0 | |t 3 The Sciences of the Unseen |
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