Sorcery or Science? : : Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts / / Ariela Marcus-Sells.
"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&...
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| Superior document: | Magic in History |
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, Pennsylvania : : The Pennsylvania State University Press,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Magic in history.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (233 pages) |
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| 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"-- |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780271093062 9780271092294 9780271093079 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Ariela Marcus-Sells. |