Jihad of the Pen (eBook)

The Sufi Literature of West Africa

Rudolph Ware (Autor)

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2018
324 Seiten
The American University in Cairo Press (Verlag)
9781617978722 (ISBN)

Infos

Outsiders have long observed the contours of the flourishing scholarly traditions of African Muslim societies, but the most renowned voices of West African Sufism have rarely been heard outside of their respective constituencies. This volume brings together writings by Uthman b. Fudi (d. 1817, Nigeria), Umar Tal (d. 1864, Mali), Ahmad Bamba (d. 1927, Senegal), and Ibrahim Niasse (d. 1975, Senegal), who, between them, founded the largest Muslim communities in African history. Jihad of the Pen offers translations of Arabic source material that proved formative to the constitution of a veritable Islamic revival sweeping West Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Recurring themes shared by these scholars—etiquette on the spiritual path, love for the Prophet Muhammad, and divine knowledge—demonstrate a shared, vibrant scholarly heritage in West Africa that drew on the classics of global Islamic learning, but also made its own contributions to Islamic intellectual history. The authors have selected enduringly relevant primary sources and richly contextualized them within broader currents of Islamic scholarship on the African continent. Students of Islam or Africa, especially those interesting in learning more of the profound contributions of African Muslim scholars, will find this work an essential reference for the university classroom or personal library.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.12.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: 19th and 20th Century • 19th and 20th century islamic movements • African Islamic Thoughts • Ahmad Bamba • divine knowledge • History of West Africa • Ibrahim Niasse • Islam • islamic intellectual history • Islamic Studies • Literature • Mali • Nigeria • nineteenth • Prophet Muhammad • Religion • scholarly • Senegal • Social Science • spiritual path • Sufi • traditions of African Muslim societies • twentieth centuries • Umar Tal • Uthman b. Fudi • west african culture
• ISBN-13: 9781617978722 / 9781617978722