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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...