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Record Nr.

UNINA9910411653603321

Autore

Wright Zachary Valentine

Titolo

Realizing Islam, Sustainable History Monograph Pilot OA Edition : The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World / / Zachary Valentine Wright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

The University of North Carolina Press, 2020

Chapel Hill : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

9798890860125

9781469660820

1469660822

9781469660844

1469660849

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Islamic civilization and Muslim networks

Classificazione

HIS001000REL037010REL090000

Disciplina

297.4/8

Soggetti

Islam - History - 18th century

Sufism - Africa, North

Tijānīyah - Africa, North

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"The Tijaniyya is the largest Sufi order in West and North Africa. In this unprecedented analysis of the Tijaniyya's origins and development in the late eighteenth century, Zachary Valentine Wright situates the order within the broader intellectual history of Islam in the early modern period. While introducing the group's founder, Ahmad al-Tijani (1735-1815), Wright's focus is on the wider network in which the order developed-a veritable global Islamic revival whose scholars commanded large followings, shared key ideas, and produced literature read widely throughout the Muslim world. They were linked, Wright shows, through chains of knowledge transmission in the face of widespread Muslim prejudice against Sufism"--