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African dominion : a new history of empire in early and medieval west Africa /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gomez, Michael A., 1955- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Islam > Africa, West > History.
Slavery > Africa, West > History.
Africa, West > History > To 1884.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Early Sahel and Savannah
  • Prologue
  • The Middle Niger in pre-antiquity and global context
  • Early Gao
  • The kingdoms of Ghana: Reform along the Senegal River
  • Slavery and race imagined in Bilad as-Sudan
  • Part II. Imperial Mali
  • The meanings of Sunjata and the dawn of imperial Mali
  • Mansa Musa and global Mali
  • Intrigue, Islam, and Ibn Baṭṭuṭa
  • Part III. Imperial Songhay
  • Sunni 'Ali and the reinvention of Songhay
  • The Sunni and the scholars: a tale of revenge
  • Renaissance: the age of Askia al-Ḥajj Muḥammad
  • Of clerics and concubines
  • Part IV. Le dernier de l'empire
  • Of fitnas and fratricide: The nadir of imperial Songhay
  • Surfeit and stability: The era of Askia Dawud
  • The rending asunder: Dominion's end
  • Epilogue: A thousand years.