Title Doubt, scholarship and society in 17th century central Sudanic Africa / by Dorrit van Dalen

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource Series Islam in africa ; v. 20 Contents One man in his environment -- Coordinates -- Intellectual history and philology -- Peripheries -- Sources and structure -- Dramatis loci -- A history of Bornu and Baghirmi as Islamic states -- The spread of Islam -- Ethnicity, religion, slavery -- Islam and traditional religions -- Conclusion -- Muhammad al-Wali -- Biography -- Works -- Reputation -- Education -- Conclusion -- The scholar's habitat -- Scholarship -- Religious leadership -- Intellectual environment: genres -- Intellectual environment: themes -- Conclusion -- Method and message -- Al-Sanusi's Sughra -- The kabbe -- Between oral and scholarly text -- Tradition with a twist -- Conclusion -- Demonising smokers -- How tobacco conquered the Islamic lands -- Al-Wali's point of view -- A folktale about the devil's piss -- From Abgar to al-Azhar -- Conclusion -- On writing -- Author and authority -- Why did al-Wali translate the Fulani commentary? -- From orality to literacy -- Knowing and the knower Summary 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 exceptional reputation. Dorrit van Dalen 's study places him within his intellectual environment, and portrays him as responding to the concerns of ordinary Muslims. It shows that scholars on the geographical margins of the Muslim world participated in the debates in the centres of Muslim learning of the time, but on their own terms. Al-Wālī's work also sheds light on a century in the Islamic history of West Africa that has until now received little attention Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Wālī, Muḥammad al-Wālī ibn Sulaymān ibn Abī Muḥammad, active 1688 SUBJECT Wālī, Muḥammad al-Wālī ibn Sulaymān ibn Abī Muḥammad, active 1688 fast Subject Muslim scholars -- Sudan -- Biography RELIGION -- Islam -- General. Intellectual life Muslim scholars SUBJECT Sudan -- Intellectual life -- 17th century Subject Sudan Genre/Form Biographies Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2016022739 ISBN 9789004324480 9004324488

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