Buch, Arabisch, Band 20, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 612 g
Reihe: Islam in Africa
Buch, Arabisch, Band 20, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 612 g
Reihe: Islam in Africa
ISBN: 978-90-04-31190-9
Verlag: Brill
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: Neuzeit
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgements
A note on transliteration
Map of western and northern Africa
1. Preface
1. One man in his environment
2. Coordinates
3. Intellectual history and philology
4. Peripheries
5. Sources and structure
2. Dramatis loci
1. A history of Bornu and Baghirmi as Islamic states
2. The spread of Islam
3. Ethnicity, religion, slavery
4. Islam and traditional religions
5. Conclusion
3. Muhammad al-Wali
1. Biography
2. Works
3. Reputation
4. Education
5. Conclusion
4. The scholar’s habitat
1. Scholarship
2. Religious leadership
3. Intellectual environment: genres
4. Intellectual environment: themes
5. Conclusion
5. Method and message
1. Al-Sanusi’s Sughra
2. The Kabbe
3. Between oral and scholarly text
4. Tradition with a twist
5. Conclusion
6. Demonising smokers
1. How tobacco conquered the Islamic lands
2. Al-Wali’s point of view
3. A folktale about the devil’s piss
4. From Abgar to al-Azhar
5. Conclusion
7. On writing
1. Author and authority
2. Why did al-Wali translate the Fulani commentary?
3. From orality to literacy
4. Knowing and the knower
5. Conclusion
8. Certainties in times of choice
Annex I. Al-adilla al-hisan fi bayan tahrim shurb al-dukhan.
An edition of the Arabic text.
Annex II. Valid proofs to proclaim smoking forbidden.
A translation.
Annex III. 'Awsikum ya ma'shar al-ikhwan.
An edition of al-Wali’s poem.
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