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Jihād in West Africa during the age of revolutions /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lovejoy, Paul E. (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Usuman dan Fodio, > 1754-1817.
Islam > Africa, West > History > 18th century.
Islam > Africa, West > History > 19th century.
Jihad.
Sokoto Jihad, 1803-1830.
Islam and state > Africa, West.
War > Religious aspects > Islam.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The age of revolutions and the Atlantic world
  • The origins of jihād in West Africa
  • The jihād of 'Uthmān dan Fodio in the central Bilād al-Sūdān
  • The economic impact of jihād in West Africa
  • Jihād and the slave trade
  • The repercussions of jihād in the Americas
  • Sokoto, the jihād states, and the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade
  • Empowering history : trajectories across the cultural and religious divide
  • Appendix : population estimates for the Sokoto caliphate, ca. 1905-15.