Divine Flood: Ibrahim Niasse and the Roots of a Twentieth-Century Sufi Revival - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780195384321ISBN-10:195384326UPC:9780195384321Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:Islam, AfricaBook Topic:Sufi, History, WestSize:9.30 x 6.30 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SCZZERG8SZ
Divine Flood: Ibrahim Niasse and the Roots of a Twentieth-Century Sufi Revival
Until recently, academic studies of Sufism have largely ignored the multiple ways in which Islamic mystical ideas and practices have developed in the modern period. For many specialists, Sufism was "on the way out" and not compatible with modernity. The present study of a twentieth-century Sufi revival in West Africa offers critical corrections to this misconception. Seesemann's work revolves...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780195384321ISBN-10:195384326UPC:9780195384321Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:Islam, AfricaBook Topic:Sufi, History, WestSize:9.30 x 6.30 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SCZZERG8SZ
R?diger Seesemann teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at Northwestern University and specializes in the study of Islam in Africa. He has done fieldwork in various West and East African countries and has published extensively on Sufism, Islam and politics, Islamism, Islamic education, as well as theories and practices of Islamic knowledge.
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