LEADER 02763oam 2200481 450 001 9910798570703321 005 20240205172532.0 010 $a90-04-32448-8 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004324480 035 $a(CKB)3710000000744231 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16450545 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14996207 035 $a(PQKB)21413910 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004324480 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4790408 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000744231 100 $a20160516d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun####uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDoubt, scholarship and society in 17th century central Sudanic Africa /$fDorrit van Dalen 210 1$aLeiden ;$aBoston :$cBrill,$d[2016] 215 $a1 online resource 225 0 $aIslam in africa ;$vv. 20 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a90-04-31190-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront Matter -- Introduction -- Dramatis loci -- Mu?ammad al-W?l? -- The Scholar?s Habitat -- Method and Message -- Demonising Smokers -- On Writing -- Certainties in Times of Choice -- Al-adilla al-?is?n f? bay?n ta?r?m shurb al-dukh?n. An Edition of the Arabic Text -- English Translation of Al-adilla al-?is?n f? bay?n ta?r?m shurb al-dukh?n: Valid Proofs to Proclaim Smoking Forbidden -- ?Awsikum y? ma?shar al-ikhw?n. An Edition of al-W?l??s Poem -- Bibliography and References -- Index. 330 $aThe seventeenth century was a period of major social change in central sudanic Africa. Islam spread from royal courts to rural communities, leading to new identities, new boundaries and new tasks for experts of the religion. Addressing these issues, the Bornu scholar Mu?ammad al-W?l? acquired an exceptional reputation. Dorrit van Dalen ?s study places him within his intellectual environment, and portrays him as responding to the concerns of ordinary Muslims. It shows that scholars on the geographical margins of the Muslim world participated in the debates in the centres of Muslim learning of the time, but on their own terms. Al-W?l??s work also sheds light on a century in the Islamic history of West Africa that has until now received little attention. 410 0$aIslam in Africa$v20. 606 $aMuslim scholars$zSudan$vBiography 607 $aSudan$xIntellectual life$y17th century 615 0$aMuslim scholars 676 $a297.092 700 $aDalen$b Dorrit van$01575125 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798570703321 996 $aDoubt, scholarship and society in 17th century central Sudanic Africa$93851853 997 $aUNINA