Doubt, scholarship and society in 17th century central Sudanic Africa /

The seventeenth century was a period of major social change in central sudanic Africa. Islam spread from royal courts to rural communities, leading to new identities, new boundaries and new tasks for experts of the religion. Addressing these issues, the Bornu scholar Muḥammad al-Wālī acquired an exc...

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Main Author: Dalen, Dorrit van.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Series: Islam in Africa 20.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004325999.

Subjects:

Wali, Muhammad al-Wali ibn Sulayman ibn Abi Muhammad, > active 1688.

Muslim scholars > Sudan > Biography.

Sudan > Intellectual life > 17th century.

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