TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dalen, Dorrit van
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2016//
TI  - Doubt, scholarship and society in 17th century central Sudanic Africa
T3  - Islam in Africa 20
PB  - Brill
CY  - Leiden
KW  - Knowledge and learning
KW  - Islamic learning and scholarship
KW  - Sudan (Region)
KW  - History
KW  - Africa, West
KW  - Intellectual life
AB  - 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
SN  - 9789004311909
LA  - English
N1  - by Dorrit van Dalen
ID  - 859429369
ER  -