Del 20 - Islam in Africa

Doubt, Scholarship and Society in 17th-Century Central Sudanic Africa

Inbunden, Arabiska, 2016

AvDorrit van Dalen,Dorrit Van Dalen,Dorrit van Dalen

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The seventeenth century was a period of major social change in central sudanic Africa. Islam spread from royal courts to rural communities, leading to new identities, new boundaries and new tasks for experts of the religion. Addressing these issues, the Bornu scholar Muḥammad al-Wālī acquired an exceptional reputation. Dorrit van Dalen’s study places him within his intellectual environment, and portrays him as responding to the concerns of ordinary Muslims. It shows that scholars on the geographical margins of the Muslim world participated in the debates in the centres of Muslim learning of the time, but on their own terms. Al-Wālī’s work also sheds light on a century in the Islamic history of West Africa that has until now received little attention.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-07-21
Mått155 x 235 x 24 mm
Vikt636 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkArabiska, Engelska
SerieIslam in Africa
Antal sidor318
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004311909

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Historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Islam inom Filosofi och religion
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

AcknowledgementsA note on transliterationMap of western and northern Africa1. Preface1.One man in his environment2.Coordinates3.Intellectual history and philology4.Peripheries5.Sources and structure2. Dramatis loci1.A history of Bornu and Baghirmi as Islamic states2.The spread of Islam 3.Ethnicity, religion, slavery4.Islam and traditional religions5.Conclusion3. Muḥammad al-Wālī1.Biography2.Works 3.Reputation 4.Education5.Conclusion4. The scholar’s habitat1. Scholarship2. Religious leadership3. Intellectual environment: genres4. Intellectual environment: themes5. Conclusion5. Method and message1.Al-Sanūsi’s Ṣughra2.The Kabbe3.Between oral and scholarly text4.Tradition with a twist 5.Conclusion6. Demonising smokers 1. How tobacco conquered the Islamic lands2. Al-Wālī’s point of view3. A folktale about the devil’s piss4. From Abgar to al-Azhar5. Conclusion7. On writing1.Author and authority2.Why did al-Wālī translate the Fulani commentary?3.From orality to literacy4.Knowing and the knower5.Conclusion8. Certainties in times of choiceAnnex I.Al-adilla al-ḥisān fī bayān taḥrīm shurb al-dukhān.An edition of the Arabic text.Annex II.Valid proofs to proclaim smoking forbidden. A translation.Annex III.ʿAwsikum yā maʿshar al-ikhwān. An edition of al-Wālī’s poem.Bibliography

'To conclude, van Dalen’s book is an important contribution, successfully navigating between global and local contexts. Doubt, Scholarship and Society encompasses text edition and translation with a trans-disciplinary analysis combining micro and global history, anthropology, religious studies, and palaeography, which is the best way, in this reviewers opinion, to renovate African history'.Rémi Dewière, European University Institute in Reading Religionhttp://readingreligion.org/books/doubt-scholarship-and-society-17th-century-central-sudanic-africa