Realizing Islam: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World

by Zachary Valentine Wright

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469660822
• ISBN13: 9781469660820
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"