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Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions - Couverture souple

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Ogunnaike, Oludamini

 
9780271086910: Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions
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ISBN 10 : 0271086912 ISBN 13 : 9780271086910
Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021

Synopsis

This book is an in-depth, comparative study of two of the most popular and influential intellectual and spiritual traditions of West Africa: Tijani Sufism and Ifa. Employing a unique methodological approach that thinks with and from--rather than merely about--these traditions, Oludamini Ogunnaike argues that they contain sophisticated epistemologies that provide practitioners with a comprehensive worldview and a way of crafting a meaningful life.

Using theories belonging to the traditions themselves as well as contemporary oral and textual sources, Ogunnaike examines how both Sufism and Ifa answer the questions of what knowledge is, how it is acquired, and how it is verified. Or, more simply: What do you know? How did you come to know it? How do you know that you know? After analyzing Ifa and Sufism separately and on their own terms, the book compares them to each other and to certain features of academic theories of knowledge. By analyzing Sufism from the perspective of Ifa, Ifa from the perspective of Sufism, and the contemporary academy from the perspective of both, this book invites scholars to inhabit these seemingly "foreign" intellectual traditions as valid and viable perspectives on knowledge, metaphysics, psychology, and ritual practice.

Unprecedented and innovative, Deep Knowledge makes a significant contribution to cross-cultural philosophy, African philosophy, religious studies, and Islamic studies. Its singular approach advances our understanding of the philosophical bases underlying these two African traditions and lays the groundwork for future study.

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À propos de l'auteur

Oludamini Ogunnaike is Assistant Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy at the University of Virginia.

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Éditeur
Pennsylvania State University Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0271086912
ISBN 13 
9780271086910
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
480
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9780271086903: Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions

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ISBN 10 :  0271086904 ISBN 13 :  9780271086903
Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020
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