In this Book
- Realizing Islam, Sustainable History Monograph Pilot OA Edition: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World
- 2020
- Book
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
- Series: Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
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summary
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. Introducing the group's founder, Ahmad al-Tijani (1737–1815), Wright focuses on the wider network in which al-Tijani traveled, revealing it as 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 through chains of knowledge transmission from which emerged vibrant discourses of renewal in the face of perceived social and political corruption.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- pp. 1-17
- 2. Portrait of a Scholar
- pp. 53-99
- 5. Abundant Blessing in an Age of Corruption
- pp. 175-207
- Conclusion
- pp. 208-218
- Bibliography
- pp. 265-290
- Other Titles in the Series
- pp. 291-292
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469660844
Related ISBN(s)
9781469660813, 9781469660820
MARC Record
OCLC
1179117629
Launched on MUSE
2020-08-06
Language
English
Open Access
Yes