Description
Book SynopsisExamines the works of two Sufi Muslim scholars, Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son Sīdi Muḥammad (d. 1826), focusing on their cosmology and metaphysics of the realm of the unseen, in relation to the history of magical discourses within the Hellenistic and Arabo-Islamic worlds.
Trade Review“This work is a substantial contribution to the studies of Sufism, West Africa, the Sahara, and the histories of magic and the occult. It is refreshingly interdisciplinary, is extremely well researched and informed, and draws on impressive manuscript work and textual analysis to make a number of important interventions across several fields.”
—Oludamini Ogunnaike,author of Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions
“From its extensive engagement with a vast, and understudied, corpus of primary sources and the contexts of their production to its thoughtful reflections on the scholar’s position and approach, Sorcery or Science? represents an exciting model for future scholarship across disciplines.”
—Beatrice Bottomley Journal of Islamic Studies
