02089nam 2200517 450 991073649610332120230415192926.09780271093062(electronic bk.)97802710922949780271093079(MiAaPQ)EBC6899404(Au-PeEL)EBL6899404(CKB)21343285500041(OCoLC)1302111184(MdBmJHUP)musev2_99973(EXLCZ)992134328550004120230415d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSorcery or Science? Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts /Ariela Marcus-SellsUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :The Pennsylvania State University Press,[2022]©20221 online resource (233 pages)Magic in HistoryPrint version: Marcus-Sells, Ariela Sorcery or Science? University Park : Penn State University Press,c2022 9780271092294 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.Magic in history.Islamic magicSaharaHistorySufismSufismSaharaHistoryIslamic magicHistory.Sufism.SufismHistory.297.4092266Marcus-Sells Ariela1985-1384049MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910736496103321Sorcery or Science3429784UNINA