Sorcery or Science? : Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts / Ariela Marcus-Sells.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The magic in history series | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022Copyright date: ©[2022]Description: 1 online resource (232 pages): illustrations (black and white), mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271093079
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Contents:
The visible world -- The realms of the unseen -- The sciences of the unseen -- Bridging the worlds in prayer.
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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The visible world -- The realms of the unseen -- The sciences of the unseen -- Bridging the worlds in prayer.

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"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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