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Living Knowledge in West African Islam

The Sufi Community of Ibrāhīm Niasse

By: Zachary Valentine Wright

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Living Knowledge in West African Islam

The Sufi Community of Ibrāhīm Niasse

By: Zachary Valentine Wright

Living Knowledge in West African Islam examines the actualization of religious identity in the community of Ibrāhīm Niasse (d.1975, Senegal). With millions of followers throughout Africa and the world, the community arguably represents one of the twentieth century’s most successful Islamic revivals. Niasse’s followers, members of the Tijāniyya Sufi order, gave particular attention to the widespread transmission of the experiential knowledge (maʿrifa) of God. They also worked to articulate a global Islamic identity in the crucible of African decolonization. The central argument of this book is that West African Sufism is legible only with an appreciation of centuries of Islamic knowledge specialization in the region. Sufi masters and disciples reenacted and deepened preexisting teacher-student relationships surrounding the learning of core Islamic disciplines, such as the Qurʾān and jurisprudence. Learning Islam meant the transformative inscription of sacred knowledge in the student’s very being, a disposition acquired in the master’s exemplary physical presence. Sufism did not undermine traditional Islamic orthodoxy: the continued transmission of Sufi knowledge has in fact preserved and revived traditional Islamic learning in West Africa.

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Realizing Islam

The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World

By: Zachary Valentine Wright

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Realizing Islam

The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World

By: Zachary Valentine Wright

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 to be 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. Wright argues that this constellation of remarkable Muslim intellectuals, despite the uncertainly of the age, promoted personal verification in religious learning. With distinctive concern for the notions of human actualization and a universal human condition, the Tijaniyya emphasized the importance of the realization of Muslim identity. Since its beginnings in North Africa in the eighteenth century, the Tijaniyya has quietly expanded its influence beyond Africa, with significant populations in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and North America. We are proud to offer this book in our usual print and ebook formats, plus as an open-access edition available through the Sustainable History Monograph Project.

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UNC Press Books

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1469660830

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On the Path of the Prophet

Shaykh Ahmad Tijani (1737-1815) and the Tariqa Muhammadiyya

By: Zachary Valentine Wright

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On the Path of the Prophet

Shaykh Ahmad Tijani (1737-1815) and the Tariqa Muhammadiyya

By: Zachary Valentine Wright

This book is the first scholarly work done on the leader of the worlds largest Sufi Tariqa.

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0991381386

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Living Knowledge in West African Islam

The Sufi Community of Ibrāhīm Niasse

By: Zachary Valentine Wright

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The Sufi Community of Ibrāhīm Niasse

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Jihad of the Pen

The Sufi Literature of West Africa

By: Rudolph Ware,Zachary Valentine Wright,Amir Syed

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Jihad of the Pen

The Sufi Literature of West Africa

By: Rudolph Ware,Zachary Valentine Wright,Amir Syed

Outsiders have long observed the contours of the flourishing scholarly traditions of African Muslim societies, but the most renowned voices of West African Sufism have rarely been heard outside of their respective constituencies. This volume brings together writings by Uthman b. Fudi (d. 1817, Nigeria), Umar Tal (d. 1864, Mali), Ahmad Bamba (d. 1927, Senegal), and Ibrahim Niasse (d. 1975, Senegal), who, between them, founded the largest Muslim communities in African history. Jihad of the Pen offers translations of Arabic source material that proved formative to the constitution of a veritable Islamic revival sweeping West Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Recurring themes shared by these scholars--etiquette on the spiritual path, love for the Prophet Muhammad, and divine knowledge--demonstrate a shared, vibrant scholarly heritage in West Africa that drew on the classics of global Islamic learning, but also made its own contributions to Islamic intellectual history. The authors have selected enduringly relevant primary sources and richly contextualized them within broader currents of Islamic scholarship on the African continent. Students of Islam or Africa, especially those interesting in learning more of the profound contributions of African Muslim scholars, will find this work an essential reference for the university classroom or personal library.

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Pearls from the Flood

Select Insight of Shaykh Al-Islam Ibrahim Niasse

By: Zachary Wright

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Select Insight of Shaykh Al-Islam Ibrahim Niasse

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Select insight of Shaykh al-Islam Ibrahim Niasse

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Living Knowledge in West African Islam

Living Knowledge in West African Islam

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Realizing Islam

On the Path of the Prophet

On the Path of the Prophet

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Living Knowledge in West African Islam

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Jihad of the Pen

Pearls from the Flood

Pearls from the Flood

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