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Sorcery or Science?: Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts

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Examines the works of two Sufi Muslim scholars, S di al-Mukht r al-Kunt (d. 1811) and his son S di 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.

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Sorcery or Science?: Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts 2023, Penn State University Press, University Park, PA

ISBN-13: 9780271092300

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Sorcery or Science?: Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts 2022, Penn State University Press, University Park, PA

ISBN-13: 9780271092294

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