Sorcery or Science?: Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts - Magic in History - Marcus-Sells, Ariela (Elon University) - Bøger - Pennsylvania State University Press - 9780271092300 - May 2, 2023

Sorcery or Science?: Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts - Magic in History

Marcus-Sells, Ariela (Elon University)

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Sorcery or Science?: Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts - Magic in History

Examines the works of two Sufi Muslim scholars, Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti (d. 1811) and his son Sidi Muhammad (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.


232 pages, 1 Maps; 4 Halftones, black and white; 1 Maps; 4 Halftones, black and white

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
To be released USA, May 2, 2023
ISBN13 9780271092300
Publishers Pennsylvania State University Press
Pages 232
Dimensions 156 × 235 × 16 mm   ·   423 g