Sorcery or science? : contesting knowledge and practice in West African Sufi texts / Ariela Marcus-Sells.
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TextSeries: 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: - 9780271093079
- 0271093072
- 9780271093062
- 0271093064
- Kuntī, Muḥammad bin al-Mukhtār, 1765-1826
- Kuntī, al-Mukhtār ibn Aḥmad, 1729 or 1730-1811
- Kuntī, Muḥammad bin al-Mukhtār, 1765-1826
- Kuntī, al-Mukhtār ibn Aḥmad, 1729 or 1730-1811
- Kuntī, al-Mukhtār ibn Aḥmad, 1729 or 1730-1811
- Sufism -- Sahara -- History
- Islamic magic -- Sahara -- History
- Soufisme -- Sahara -- Histoire
- Magie islamique -- Sahara -- Histoire
- HISTORY / Africa / West
- Sufism
- Islamic magic
- Sahara
- 297.4092266 23
- BP190.5.M25 M36 2022eb
- online - EBSCO
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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 |
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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).