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

• Autore: Lovejoy Paul E.
• Pubblicazione: Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (433 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 297.096609033
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: West Africa
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Jihād in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions
• ISBN: 0-8214-4583-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910162713103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II