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020 _a9781469660844
020 _z9781469660813
020 _z9781469660820
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050 0 4 _aBP189.7.T5
_bW75 2020
082 0 _a297.4/8
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100 1 _aWright, Zachary Valentine,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aRealizing Islam, Sustainable History Monograph Pilot OA Edition
_bThe Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World /
_cZachary Valentine Wright.
264 1 _bThe University of North Carolina Press,
264 3 _bProject MUSE,
300 _a1 online resource (pages cm)
490 0 _aIslamic civilization and Muslim networks
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _a"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. While introducing the group's founder, Ahmad al-Tijani (1735-1815), Wright's focus is on the wider network in which the order developed-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, Wright shows, through chains of knowledge transmission in the face of widespread Muslim prejudice against Sufism"--
_cProvided by publisher.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
600 1 1 _aTijānī, Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad,
_d1737 or 1738-1815.
650 0 _aIslam
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 0 _aSufism
_zAfrica, North.
650 0 _aTijānīyah
_zAfrica, North.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aIslamic civilization & Muslim networks.
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/77197/
999 _c26997
_d26997