Realizing Islam: the Tijāniyya in North Africa and the eighteenth-century Muslim world

"The Tijaniyya is the largest Sufi order in West and North Africa. In this unprecedented analysis of the Tijaniyya's origins and development in the late eighteenth century, Zachary Valentine Wright situates the order within the broader intellectual history of Islam in the early modern peri...

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Auteur principal: Wright, Zachary Valentine (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Livre
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press [2020]
Dans:Année: 2020
Collection/Revue:Islamic civilization and Muslim networks
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Nordafrika / Maghreb / Islam / Tijaniyya / Soufisme / Tiǧānī, Aḥmad Ibn-Maḥmad at- 1737-1815 / Histoire 1737-1815
Sujets non-standardisés:B Sufism (Africa, North)
B Tijānīyah (Africa, North)
B Islam History 18th century
B Tijānī, Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (1737 or 1738-1815)
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Résumé:"The Tijaniyya is the largest Sufi order in West and North Africa. In this unprecedented analysis of the Tijaniyya's origins and development in the late eighteenth century, Zachary Valentine Wright situates the order within the broader intellectual history of Islam in the early modern period. While introducing the group's founder, Ahmad al-Tijani (1735-1815), Wright's focus is on the wider network in which the order developed-a veritable global Islamic revival whose scholars commanded large followings, shared key ideas, and produced literature read widely throughout the Muslim world. They were linked, Wright shows, through chains of knowledge transmission in the face of widespread Muslim prejudice against Sufism"--
ISBN:1469660830
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5149/9781469660844_Wright