Sorcery Or Science?: Contesting Knowledge And Practice In West African Sufi Texts (Magic In History)

Examines the works of two Sufi Muslim scholars, Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti (d. 1811) and his son Sidi Mu?ammad (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.

• | Author: Ariela Marcus-Sells
• | Publisher: Penn State University Press
• | Publication Date: May 02, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0271092300
• | ISBN-13: 9780271092300