Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The North African scholar al-Sanūsī (d.1490), from Tlemcen in what is today Algeria, is one of the most influential theologians and logicians in the Islamic tradition and undoubtedly the most impactful theologian and logician from Islamic Africa. His works were wildly popular in large areas of the Islamic world until the modern period and are still studied to this day in some circles. In the premodern period, they were translated or adapted into Berber, Fulani, Turkish, Malay, and Javanese. Despite this historical influence, modern studies on al-Sanūsī have been sparse. The present book is the first monograph on Sanūsī in English or any other European language. It discusses the main contours of his thought: his controversial attacks on imitation or conformism when it comes to creedal commitment and his insistence that every adult and sane believer should learn both the core articles of faith and their rational groundings; his shorter and very popular creedal works that give a sense of what he wanted all believers to know; his logical writings, especially the influential Epitome of Logic; his more advanced interventions in long-standing controversies in Islamic theology, and his Sufi-inflected views on ethics. A concluding chapter outlines the reception of his works down to the modern period.</jats:p>