Author: Hugh Anthony Stephens JohnstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fulani Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Fulani Empire of Sokoto
Author: Hugh Anthony Stephens JohnstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fulani Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Sokoto Caliphate
Author: Murray LastPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fulani Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Fulani Empire of Sokoto
Author: Hugh Anthony Stephens JohnstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fula (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
From Slavery to Aid
Author: Benedetta RossiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107119057
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This book explores transformations in the relationship between ecology, politics and labour in the Nigerien Sahel over two centuries.
From Rebels to Rulers
Author: Paul NaylorPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1847012701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A reinterpretation of the history of Sokoto that provides a new assessment of its leaders and their visions for the Muslim state.Sokoto was the largest and longest lasting of West Africa's nineteenth-century Muslim empires. Its intellectual and political elite left behind a vast written record, including over 300 Arabic texts authored by the jihad's leaders: Usman dan Fodio, his brother Abdullahi and his son, Muhammad Bello (known collectively as the Fodiawa). Sokoto's early years are one of the most documented periods of pre-colonial African history, yet current narratives pay little attention to the formative role these texts played in the creation of Sokoto, and the complex scholarly world from which they originated. Far from being unified around a single concept of Muslim statecraft, this book demonstrates how divided the Fodiawa were about what Sokoto could and should be, and the various discursive strategies they used to enrol local societies into their vision. Based on a close analysis of the sources (some appearing in English translation for the first time) and an effort to date their intellectual production, the book restores agency to Sokoto's leaders as individuals with different goals, characters and methods. More generally, it shows how revolutionary religious movements gain legitimacy, and how the kind of legitimacy they claim changes as they move from rebels to rulers.some appearing in English translation for the first time) and an effort to date their intellectual production, the book restores agency to Sokoto's leaders as individuals with different goals, characters and methods. More generally, it shows how revolutionary religious movements gain legitimacy, and how the kind of legitimacy they claim changes as they move from rebels to rulers.some appearing in English translation for the first time) and an effort to date their intellectual production, the book restores agency to Sokoto's leaders as individuals with different goals, characters and methods. More generally, it shows how revolutionary religious movements gain legitimacy, and how the kind of legitimacy they claim changes as they move from rebels to rulers.some appearing in English translation for the first time) and an effort to date their intellectual production, the book restores agency to Sokoto's leaders as individuals with different goals, characters and methods. More generally, it shows how revolutionary religious movements gain legitimacy, and how the kind of legitimacy they claim changes as they move from rebels to rulers.
Protection and Empire
Author: Lauren BentonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108417868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book situates protection at the centre of the global history of empires, thus advancing a new perspective on world history.
Warfare in the Sokoto Caliphate
Author: Joseph P. SmaldonePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521101424
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The successful jihad of 1804 in Hausaland - perhaps the most important Islamic revolution in West African history, with consequences still apparent in Nigeria today - resulted in the establishment of the Sokoto Caliphate, the largest and most enduring West African polity in the nineteenth century. The book is a full length study of traditional Sudanic military history, and an authoritative analysis of warfare in its most prominent Islamic state. After a brief survey of the evolution of Sudanic warfare and military organisation before 1800, Dr Smaldone examines the historical development and sociological implications of the two important revolutions in military technology which occurred in the nineteenth century: the adoption of cavalry during the jihad period and the introduction of firearms in the latter half of the century. He argues that these two revolutions were causal factors in producing two structural transformations in the emirates of the Caliphate, first from relatively egalitarian combatant communities to feudal systems, and then to centralised bureaucratic state organisations.
The Fulani Empire of Sokoto
Author: H.A.S.. JohnstonReligion and the Making of Nigeria
Author: Olufemi VaughanPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822373874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
In Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Using a wealth of archival sources and extensive Africanist scholarship, Vaughan traces Nigeria’s social, religious, and political history from the early nineteenth century to the present. During the nineteenth century, the historic Sokoto Jihad in today’s northern Nigeria and the Christian missionary movement in what is now southwestern Nigeria provided the frameworks for ethno-religious divisions in colonial society. Following Nigeria’s independence from Britain in 1960, Christian-Muslim tensions became manifest in regional and religious conflicts over the expansion of sharia, in fierce competition among political elites for state power, and in the rise of Boko Haram. These tensions are not simply conflicts over religious beliefs, ethnicity, and regionalism; they represent structural imbalances founded on the religious divisions forged under colonial rule.
The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism
Author: Lasse HeertenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107111803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
A global history of 'Biafra', providing a new explanation for the ascendance of humanitarianism in a postcolonial world.