Sorcery or science? : contesting knowledge and practice in West African Sufi texts

Author(s)

• Marcus-Sells, Ariela

Bibliographic Information

Sorcery or science? : contesting knowledge and practice in West African Sufi texts

Ariela Marcus-Sells

（Magic in history）

The Pennsylvania State University Press, c2022

• : cloth

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-199) and index

Summary: "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

Contents of Works

• The visible world
• The realms of the unseen
• The sciences of the unseen
• Bridging the worlds in prayer

Details

• NCID: BC15545648
• ISBN:
  • 9780271092294
• LCCN: 2021054031
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: University Park, Pennsylvania
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 214 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BP190.5.M25
  • DC23 : 297.4092266
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Islamic magic -- Sahara -- History
  • LCSH : Sufism -- Sahara -- History
  • LCSH : Kuntī, al-Mukhtār ibn Aḥmad, 1729 or 1730-1811
  • LCSH : Kuntī, Muḥammad bin al-Mukhtār, 1765-1826
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA5886851X