Dalen, Dorrit van, <br/><br/>
Doubt, scholarship and society in 17th century central Sudanic Africa / 
by Dorrit van Dalen. 
 - 1 online resource (329 pages) 
 - Islam in africa ;  volume 20 .
 - Islam in Africa ;  v. 20. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789004324480 (e-book) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Wali, Muhammad al-Wali ibn Sulayman ibn Abi Muhammad, active 1688. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Muslim scholars--Sudan--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Sudan--Intellectual life--17th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BP80.W258  / D35 2016 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>297.092  B