Sorcery or Science?
Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts
$90.98
- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2023
Summary
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 thought in West Africa.
Known as the Kunta scholars, Mukhtār al-Kuntī and Muḥammad al-Kuntī were influential teachers who developed a pedagogical network of students across the Sahara. I…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780271092300 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0271092300 |
| Author: | Ariela Marcus-Sells |
| Publisher: | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Imprint: | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2023 |
| Weight: | 399g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Magic in History |
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Critics Review
“From its extensive engagement with a vast, and understudied, corpus of primary sources and the contexts of their production to its thoughtful reflections on the scholar’s position and approach, Sorcery or Science? represents an exciting model for future scholarship across disciplines.”
—Beatrice Bottomley Journal of Islamic Studies
“This work is a substantial contribution to the studies of Sufism, West Africa, the Sahara, and the histories of magic and the occult. It is refreshingly interdisciplinary, is extremely well researched and informed, and draws on impressive manuscript work and textual analysis to make a number of important interventions across several fields.”
—Oludamini Ogunnaike, author of Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions
About The Author
Ariela Marcus-Sells
Ariela Marcus-Sells is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University.
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