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%T Doubt, scholarship and society in 17th century central Sudanic Africa
%A Dalen, Dorrit van
%S Islam in Africa 20
%D 2016
%I Brill
%C Leiden
%@ 9789004311909
%G English
%F 859429369
%O by Dorrit van Dalen
%O Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-313) and indexes
%O Teilweise in arabischer Schrift
%X 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
%L 297.092 B
%K Knowledge and learning
%K Islamic learning and scholarship
%K Sudan (Region)
%K History
%K Africa, West
%K Intellectual life
%9 Text