عنوان

Al-Hājj Umar Tāl and the Realm of the Written: Mastery, Mobility and Islamic Authority in 19th Century West Africa

شماره

TL49430

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Al-Hājj Umar Tāl and the Realm of the Written: Mastery, Mobility and Islamic Authority in 19th Century West Africa

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Amir Syed

نام ساير پديدآوران

Ware, Rudolph T.

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Michigan

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2017

نام خاص و کميت اثر

242

متن يادداشت

Committee members: Johnson, Paul Christopher; Seesemann, Rudiger; Shryock, Andrew J; Ware, Rudolph T

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-90331-7

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

نظم درجات

Anthropology and History

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Michigan

امتياز متن

2017

متن يادداشت

In 1864, al-ajj 'Umar Tāl, one of the most important nineteenth century West African Muslim scholars and political figures disappeared in a cave in Mali. This study attempts to reconstitute crucial aspects of his life through an analysis of his body of work. While previous scholarship only emphasized his political accomplishments, including his j?had, I argue it is important to approach Tal as an intellectual and examine his life as it unfolded within the context of the nineteenth century. By rooting my analysis on Arabic documents, including letters, poems and a legal treatise, I produce a narrative from within that focuses on the possibilities, contradictions, and ambiguities of this one life. By centering this study on Tal's own words, I recover a crucial indigenous voice from the past. My narrative examines Tal's mastery over the Islamic religious sciences, his extraordinary mobility in the pursuit of learning, and ultimately the claims that he made through the knowledge that he possessed. By interpreting Tal's scholarly production over time, I demonstrate that his life is a rare interpretive prism to investigate pertinent questions about Islamic practice, authority and politics in precolonial West Africa. This precolonial past is significant because in the twentieth century long standing Islamic knowledge practices underwent an epistemological shift. The emergence of new forms of schooling, standardized curricula and an emphasis on reading, also transformed the historic roles of Muslim scholars. No longer the sole interpreters and transmitters of religious doctrine and practice, the majority of Muslims scholars became experts within the framework of emerging nation-states. While these changes have drawn considerable scholarly analysis, the precolonial past continues to remain understudied.

موضوع مستند نشده

Biographies; African history; Islamic Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Social sciences;Islamic authority;Knowledge practice;Sufism;West Africa

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Brumfield, Nicholas J.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ware, Rudolph T.

تقسيم فرعي

Anthropology and History

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Michigan

شماره بازیابی

1917831465; 10612198

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y