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Dorrit van Dalen - Doubt, Scholarship and Society in 17th-Century Central Sudanic Africa, Inbunden

Inbunden, Arabiska, Engelska, 2016

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

Av Dorrit van Dalen

Del 20 i serien Islam in Africa

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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.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2016-07-21
  • Mått: 155 x 235 x 24 mm
  • Vikt: 636 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Arabiska, Engelska
  • Serie: Islam in Africa
  • Antal sidor: 318
  • Förlag: Brill
  • ISBN: 9789004311909
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Dorrit van Dalen has published on West Africa as a journalist, before she obtained a Ph.D. from Leiden University in 2015.

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'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

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