Jihad of the Pen: The Sufi Literature of West Africa - Hardcover

Ware, Rudolph; Wright, Zachary; Syed, Amir

 
9789774168635: Jihad of the Pen: The Sufi Literature of West Africa
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9774168631 ISBN 13: 9789774168635
Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

A richly annotated survey of writings by three of West Africa's most renowned Sufi scholars

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Rudolph Ware is associate professor in the department of history at the University of Michigan, and the founder and director of the IKHLAS research initiative for the study of Islamic Knowledge, Histories and Languages, Arts and Sciences. He is the author of The Walking Qur’an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa (2014) and several articles on slavery in Islamic Africa and the Atlantic World.

Zachary Wright is associate professor of history and religious studies at Northwestern University in Qatar. His research concerns Islamic revivalism and the religious sciences, especially Sufism, in North and West Africa from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. He is the author of Living Knowledge in West African Islam: The Sufi Community of Ibrahim Niasse (2015).

Amir Syed is a visiting assistant professor of the history of the Islamic world at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include issues related to the construction of religious authority, scholarly culture, and Islamic knowledge practices.



Rudolph Ware is associate professor in the department of history at the University of Michigan, and the founder and director of the IKHLAS research initiative for the study of Islamic Knowledge, Histories and Languages, Arts and Sciences. He is the author of The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa (2014) and several articles on slavery in Islamic Africa and the Atlantic World.

Zachary Wright is associate professor of history and religious studies at Northwestern University in Qatar. His research concerns Islamic revivalism and the religious sciences, especially Sufism, in North and West Africa from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Amir Syed is a visiting assistant professor of the history of the Islamic world at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include issues related to the construction of religious authority, scholarly culture, and Islamic knowledge practices.

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Verlag
The American University in Cairo Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9774168631
ISBN 13 
9789774168635
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Anzahl der Seiten
316
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