Realizing Islam, Sustainable History Monograph Pilot OA Edition : The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World / / Zachary Valentine Wright.

"The Tijaniyya is the largest Sufi order in West and North Africa. In this unprecedented analysis of the Tijaniyya's origins and development in the late eighteenth century, Zachary Valentine Wright situates the order within the broader intellectual history of Islam in the early modern peri...

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Place / Publishing House:Chapel Hill : : The University of North Carolina Press,, 2020.
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Islamic civilization & Muslim networks.
Physical Description:1 online resource
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Summary:"The Tijaniyya is the largest Sufi order in West and North Africa. In this unprecedented analysis of the Tijaniyya's origins and development in the late eighteenth century, Zachary Valentine Wright situates the order within the broader intellectual history of Islam in the early modern period. While introducing the group's founder, Ahmad al-Tijani (1735-1815), Wright's focus is on the wider network in which the order developed-a veritable global Islamic revival whose scholars commanded large followings, shared key ideas, and produced literature read widely throughout the Muslim world. They were linked, Wright shows, through chains of knowledge transmission in the face of widespread Muslim prejudice against Sufism"--
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9798890860125
1469660822
1469660849
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Zachary Valentine Wright.