Doubt, scholarship and society in 17th century central Sudanic Africa
By: by Dorrit van Dalen
Series: Islam in Africa -- volume 20; Islam in Africa -- v. 20.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9789004311909; 9789004324480
Subjects: Muslim scholars; Biography; Intellectual life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-313) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: One man in his environment; title: Coordinates; title: Intellectual history and philology; title: Peripheries; title: Sources and structure; title: Dramatis loci; title: A history of Bornu and Baghirmi as Islamic states; title: The spread of Islam; title: Ethnicity, religion, slavery; title: Islam and traditional religions; title: Conclusion; title: Muhammad al-Wali; title: Biography; title: Works; title: Reputation; title: Education; title: Conclusion; title: The scholar's habitat; title: Scholarship; title: Religious leadership; title: Intellectual environment: genres; title: Intellectual environment: themes; title: Conclusion; title: Method and message; title: Al-Sanusi's Sughra; title: The kabbe; title: Between oral and scholarly text; title: Tradition with a twist; title: Conclusion; title: Demonising smokers; title: How tobacco conquered the Islamic lands; title: Al-Wali's point of view; title: A folktale about the devil's piss; title: From Abgar to al-Azhar; title: Conclusion; title: On writing; title: Author and authority; title: Why did al-Wali translate the Fulani commentary?; title: From orality to literacy; title: Knowing and the knower.