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Ahmad al-Tijani
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Eighteenth-Century Intellectual History
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Hamdun Ibn al-Hajj
Islam in Africa
Islamic Intellectual History
Islamic mysticism
Islamic sainthood
Islamic Scholarly Renewal
Islamic scholarship in Africa
Mawlay Sulayman
Muslim scholars and the state in precolonial North Africa
Muslim scholars of Algeria
Muslim scholars of Morocco
Neo-Sufism
saintly hierarchy
Scholars of Fez (Fes)
seal of saints
Sufism
Sufism in Africa
Tariqa Muhammadiyya
Tijaniyya
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- ISBN 9781469660813
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 19 Oct 2020
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
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.
Zachary Valentine Wright is associate professor in residence at Northwestern University in Qatar.
