Sorcery, Totem, and Jihad in African Philosophy

(Part of the Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought Series)

by Christopher Wise

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In this significant new work in African Philosophy, Christopher Wise explores deconstruction's historical indebtedness to Egypto-African civilization and its relevance in Islamicate Africa today. He does so by comparing deconstructive and African thought on the spoken utterance, nothingness, conjuration, the oath or vow, occult sorcery, blood election, violence, circumcision, totemic inscription practices, animal metamorphosis and sacrifice, the Abrahamic,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1350013110

ISBN13:9781350013117

Release Date:March 2017

Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic

Length:216 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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Sorcery, Totem, and Jihad in African Philosophy

(Part of the Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought Series)

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