Doubt, scholarship and society in 17th century central Sudanic Africa / / by Dorrit van Dalen.
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| Superior document: | Islam in africa ; volume 20 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016] 2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Islam in Africa ;
v. 20. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (329 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- One man in his environment
- Coordinates
- Intellectual history and philology
- Peripheries
- Sources and structure
- Dramatis loci
- A history of Bornu and Baghirmi as Islamic states
- The spread of Islam
- Ethnicity, religion, slavery
- Islam and traditional religions
- Conclusion
- Muhammad al-Wali
- Biography
- Works
- Reputation
- Education
- Conclusion
- The scholar's habitat
- Scholarship
- Religious leadership
- Intellectual environment: genres
- Intellectual environment: themes
- Conclusion
- Method and message
- Al-Sanusi's Sughra
- The kabbe
- Between oral and scholarly text
- Tradition with a twist
- Conclusion
- Demonising smokers
- How tobacco conquered the Islamic lands
- Al-Wali's point of view
- A folktale about the devil's piss
- From Abgar to al-Azhar
- Conclusion
- On writing
- Author and authority
- Why did al-Wali translate the Fulani commentary?
- From orality to literacy
- Knowing and the knower.