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Sorcery or science? : contesting knowledge and practice in West African Sufi texts / Ariela Marcus-Sells.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Magic in historyPublisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages) : illustrations (black and white), mapContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780271093079
  • 0271093072
  • 9780271093062
  • 0271093064
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sorcery or science?DDC classification:
  • 297.4092266 23
LOC classification:
  • BP190.5.M25 M36 2022eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
The visible world -- The realms of the unseen -- The sciences of the unseen -- Bridging the worlds in prayer.
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access. JSTORSummary: "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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Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)3188929

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The visible world -- The realms of the unseen -- The sciences of the unseen -- Bridging the worlds in prayer.

"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.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed April 21, 2022).