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Author Marcus-Sells, Ariela, 1985- author.

Title Sorcery or science? : contesting knowledge and practice in West African Sufi texts / Ariela Marcus-Sells.

Publication Info. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages) : illustrations (black and white), map.
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Series The magic in history series
Magic in history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The visible world -- The realms of the unseen -- The sciences of the unseen -- Bridging the worlds in prayer.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed April 21, 2022).
Subject Kuntī, Muḥammad bin al-Mukhtār, 1765-1826.
Kuntī, al-Mukhtār ibn Aḥmad, 1729 or 1730-1811.
Kuntī, al-Mukhtār ibn Aḥmad, 1729 or 1730-1811. (OCoLC)fst01829481
Sufism -- Sahara -- History.
Islamic magic -- Sahara -- History.
HISTORY / Africa / West.
Sufism. (OCoLC)fst01137257
Islamic magic. (OCoLC)fst01730344
Sahara. (OCoLC)fst01242088
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Marcus-Sells, Ariela, 1985- Sorcery or science? University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022] 9780271092294 (DLC) 2021054031 (OCoLC)1274198769
ISBN 9780271093079 (electronic book)
0271093072 (electronic book)
9780271093062 (electronic book)
0271093064 (electronic book)
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