Another Road to Damascus : : An Integrative Approach to 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri (1808-1883) /

Another Road to Damascus : : An Integrative Approach to 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri (1808-1883) / / Tom Woerner-Powell.

This text challenges existing writing on ‘Abd al-Qādir al-Jazā'irī which divides his life into two juxtaposed phases separated by narratives of conversion: from Francophobia to Francophilia, from militarism to pacifism, from activism to quietism, from Islamism to pluralism, from politics to...

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Woerner-Powell, Tom,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 254 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • 1.0 Chapter One – Sīrah Sayfiyyah: ʿAbd al-Qādir in North Africa, 1833–1848
  • 2.0 Chapter Two – ʿAbd al-Qādir’s Risālah on Hijrah
  • 3.0 Chapter Three – Exile and Imprisonment on the Road to Damascus; 1848–1852
  • 4.0 Chapter Four – From Istanbul to Damascus, 1853–1864
  • 5.0 Chapter Five – Sīrah Ṣūfiyyah: Sufism, Suspicion, and the Kitāb al-Mawāqif; 1864–1883
  • 6.0 Conclusion
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography – Archival Sources
  • Appendix A – ʿAbd al-Qādir’s Risālah on Hijrah
  • Appendix B – ʿAbd al-Qādir’s Mawqif #254 (‘He Is [Like] That’)
  • Index
  • Author Index

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