UID:
almahu_9949088240302882
Format:
1 online resource (329 pages)
ISBN:
9789004324480 (e-book)
Series Statement:
Islam in africa ; volume 20
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Dalen, Dorrit van. Doubt, scholarship and society in 17th century central Sudanic Africa. Leiden : Brill, [2016] ISBN 9789004311909
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
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