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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Maḥmūd, al-Baghdādī; Maḥmūd, al-Baghdādī |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
H T Norris |
ISBN: | 9780198265382 0198265387 |
OCLC Number: | 907242137 |
Description: | xxxi, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The visit of Shaykh Ahmad as-Yamani to the city of Agades; the Daghughiyyun Sharifs and scholars of the family of al-Hajj settle in Central Sahara; Shaykh Sidi al-Mahmud al-Baghdadi and his arrival in Air in the 16th century; the followers of Sidi Mahmud and their disciples; doctrines of the "Mahmudiyya"; rules for the hermitages in Air; the martyrdom of Sidi Mahmud; the later history of the "Mahmudiyya". |
Responsibility: | H.T. Norris. |
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'H. T. Norris's book contains a useful description of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Sufism in the Nigerian mountains and an important translation of fragments of the Qudwa referring to the history and practice of Mahmudiyya Sufism.'Ioan P. Culianu, University of Chicago, The Journal of Religion 'With the publication of this book Professor Norris once again offers the promise of a useful controbution to an often neglected field that, over the years, has become largely his own - the cultural and intellectual history of Saharan Islam ... Norris's translation of the Qudwa is interesting ... and competently done throughout ... the work ... is clearly the product of a high degree of scholarly expertise.'Vincent J. Cornell, Duke University, North Carolina, Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. IV, No. 1, 1993 `As elegantly written as all the author's previous books, this work is an important contribution to the study of Sahelian Islam, of which H.T. Norris is undoubtedly one of the finest specialists'.Dominique Casajus, Bulletin, School of Oriental and African Studies, LIV, 3, 1990. Read more...

