TY - BOOK AU - van Dalen,Dorrit TI - Doubt, Scholarship and Society in 17th-Century Central Sudanic Africa T2 - Islam in Africa Series SN - 9789004324480 AV - BP80.W258D35 2016 U1 - 297.092 B PY - 2016/// CY - Boston PB - BRILL KW - Wali, Muhammad al-Wali ibn Sulayman ibn Abi Muhammad, active 1688--Knowledge and learning KW - Islamic learning and scholarship--Sudan (Region)--History--17th century KW - Islamic learning and scholarship--Africa, West--History--17th century KW - Sudan (Region)--Intellectual life--17th century KW - Africa, West--Intellectual life--17th century KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎A Note on Transliteration -- ‎Chapter 1. Introduction -- ‎1. One Man in His Environment -- ‎2. The Setting -- ‎3. Intellectual History and Philology -- ‎4. Peripheries -- ‎5. Sources and Structure -- ‎Chapter 2. Dramatis loci -- ‎1. A History of Bornu and Baghirmi as Islamic States -- ‎2. Spread of Islam to Rural Areas -- ‎3. Ethnicity, Religion and Slavery -- ‎4. Islam and Traditional Religions -- ‎5. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 3. Muḥammad al-Wālī -- ‎1. Biography -- ‎2. Works -- ‎3. Education -- ‎4. Reputation -- ‎5. Concluding Remarks -- ‎Chapter 4. The Scholar's Habitat -- ‎1. Scholarship and Religious Leadership -- ‎2. The Influence of Social Surroundings -- ‎3. Intellectual Environment: The Canon -- ‎4. Intellectual Environment: Themes -- ‎5. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 5. Method and Message -- ‎1. Al-Sanūsī's Ṣughra -- ‎2. The Kabbe Tradition -- ‎3. Between Oral and Scholarly Text -- ‎4. Tradition with a Twist -- ‎5. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 6. Demonising Smokers -- ‎1. How Tobacco Conquered the Islamic Lands -- ‎2. Al-Wālī's Point of View -- ‎3. A Folktale about the Devil's Piss -- ‎4. From Abgar to al-Azhar -- ‎5. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 7. On Writing -- ‎1. Author and Authority -- ‎2. Why Did al-Wālī Translate the Fulani Commentary? -- ‎3. From Orality to Literacy -- ‎4. Knowing and the Knower -- ‎5. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 8. Certainties in Times of Choice -- Annex I. Al-adilla al-ḥisān fī bayān taḥrīm shurb al-dukhān. An Edition of the Arabic Text -- ‎Annex II. English Translation of Al-adilla al-ḥisān fī bayān taḥrīm shurb al-dukhān: Valid Proofs to Proclaim Smoking Forbidden -- ‎Valid Proofs to Proclaim Smoking Forbidden -- ‎Annex III. ʿAwsikum yā maʿshar al-ikhwān. An Edition of al-Wālī's Poem -- ‎Bibliography and References -- ‎References to Manuscript Collections -- ‎Abbreviations -- ‎Bibliography; ‎Index N2 - In Doubt, Scholarship and Society in 17th Century Central Sudanic Africa Dorrit van Dalen places the 17th century Bornu scholar al-Wālī in the contemporary intellectual environment of global Islam and in his direct social environment, where the spread of Islam caused identities to shift UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4790408 ER -