Marcus-Sells, Ariela,  1985- <br/><br/>
Sorcery or Science? :   Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts /  
Ariela Marcus-Sells. 
 - 1 online resource (232 pages):   illustrations (black and white), map ; 
 - The magic in history series .
 - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/>The visible world -- The realms of the unseen -- The sciences of the unseen -- Bridging the worlds in prayer. 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780271093079 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Kuntī, al-Mukhtār ibn Aḥmad, 1729 or 1730-1811. <br/>Kuntī, Muḥammad bin al-Mukhtār, 1765-1826. <br/>Kuntī, al-Mukhtār ibn Aḥmad, 1729 or 1730-1811. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sufism.<br/>Islamic magic.<br/>Sufism--History.--Sahara<br/>Islamic magic--History.--Sahara
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Sahara.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.<br/>Electronic books.