Realizing Islam, Sustainable History Monograph Pilot OA Edition

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Realizing Islam, Sustainable History Monograph Pilot OA Edition is written by Zachary Valentine Wright and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1469660849 (ISBN 10) and 9781469660844 (ISBN 13).

"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"--