The Conversion of Medieval Ghāna as Narrated by a Later Ibāḍī Scholar Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Saʿīd al-Darjīnī (d. ca. 670/1271, composed ca. 650/1252–53)

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Titre
The Conversion of Medieval Ghāna as Narrated by a Later Ibāḍī Scholar Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Saʿīd al-Darjīnī (d. ca. 670/1271, composed ca. 650/1252–53)
Créateur
Yarbrough, Luke
Date
2020
Dans
Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age: A Sourcebook
Résumé
The following semilegendary account of conversion in West Africa comes from the pen of Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Darjīnī, an Ibāḍī Muslim scholar, jurist, and poet from a Berber family in what is now west-central Tunisia. The Ibāḍīs are the major surviving representative of Kharijite Islam, the smallest of the religion’s three major early branches after Sunnism and Shiʿism. Today Ibāḍīs live mainly in Oman and Algeria.

The book that contains this account, Kitāb Ṭabaqāt al-Mashāyikh, is al-Darjīnī’s principal work. It was written in response to a request from some Ibāḍī scholars of Oman for information concerning Ibāḍī history and learning in...
Editeur
University of California Press
Place
California
Langue
eng
numéro d’édition
1
pages
253-255
ISBN
978-0-520-96910-0 978-0-520-29672-5

Yarbrough, Luke, “The Conversion of Medieval Ghāna as Narrated by a Later Ibāḍī Scholar Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Saʿīd al-Darjīnī (d. ca. 670/1271, composed ca. 650/1252–53)”, University of California Press, 2020, bibliographie, consulté le 21 décembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/3477

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