TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dalen,Dorrit van
TI  - Doubt, scholarship and society in 17th century central Sudanic Africa
T2  - Islam in africa
AV  - BP80.W258 D35 2016
U1  - 297.092B 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Wali, Muhammad al-Wali ibn Sulayman ibn Abi Muhammad,
KW  - Muslim scholars
KW  - Sudan
KW  - Biography
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
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ER  -