Sorcery or Science? : Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts / / Ariela Marcus-Sells

• Autore: Marcus-Sells Ariela <1985->
• Pubblicazione: University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 pages)
• Disciplina: 297.4092266
• Soggetto topico: Islamic magic - Sahara - History; Sufism; Sufism - Sahara - History
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The visible world -- The realms of the unseen -- The sciences of the unseen -- Bridging the worlds in prayer.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Sorcery or Science
• ISBN: 9780271093062; 9780271093079; 9780271092294
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910736496103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Magic in history.