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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162713103321

Autore

Lovejoy Paul E.

Titolo

Jihād in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions / / Paul E. Lovejoy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-8214-4583-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

297.096609033

Soggetti

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

West Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The Age of revolutions and the Atlantic World -- The origins of jihād in West Africa -- The jihād of Ô̂uthman 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.

Sommario/riassunto

In Jihād in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world have not given Africa its due consideration as part of either the Atlantic world or the age of revolutions.