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

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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Call Number: BP80.W258

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Introduction
  • Dramatis loci
  • Muḥammad al-Wālī
  • The Scholar's Habitat
  • Method and Message
  • Demonising Smokers
  • On Writing
  • Certainties in Times of Choice
  • Al-adilla al-ḥisān fī bayān taḥrīm shurb al-dukhān. An Edition of the Arabic Text
  • English Translation of Al-adilla al-ḥisān fī bayān taḥrīm shurb al-dukhān: Valid Proofs to Proclaim Smoking Forbidden
  • ʿAwsikum yā maʿshar al-ikhwān. An Edition of al-Wālī's Poem
  • Bibliography and References
  • Index.