Sorcery or Science?: Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts

by Ariela Marcus-Sells

Book Overview

Sorcery or Science? examines how two Sufi Muslim theologians who rose to prominence in the western Sahara Desert in the late eighteenth century, Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son and successor, Sīdi Muḥammad al-Kuntī (d. 1826), decisively influenced the development of Sufi Muslim thought in West Africa.

Known as the Kunta scholars, Mukhtār al-Kuntī and Muḥammad al-Kuntī...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271092300
• ISBN13: 9780271092300
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.3"