Islam in West Africa : religion, society and politics to 1800
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Islam in West Africa : religion, society and politics to 1800
（Collected studies series, CS462）
Variorum, 1994
Available at 14 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a study of the Islamic religion in contemporary West Africa. It encompasses religion, society and politics up to the year 1800.
Table of Contents
- Part I Islamization: patterns of Islamization in West Africa
- slavery and Islamization in Africa - a comparative study. Part II Islam in politics - the role of the "ulama": Islam in West African politics - accommodation and tension between the "ulama" and the political authorities
- sociopolitical roles of Muslim clerics and scholars in West Africa
- merchants versus scholars and clerics - differential and complementary roles. Part III Background to the Islamic revolutions: rural and urban Islam in West Africa - an introductory essay
- the 18th century - background to the Islamic revolutions in West Africa
- notes on the origins of Islamic militancy in the Futa Jallon. Part IV Historical studies: Berber nomads and Sudanese states - the historiography of the desert-Sahel interface
- the Jews of Sijilmasa and the Saharan trade
- 'Abd Allah b Yasin and the Almoravids
- Mamluk Egypt and Takrur (West Africa). Part V Textual studies: Ibn Hawqal, the checque and Awdaghost
- ancient Ghana - a reassessment of some Arabic sources
- the 12-century anonymous Kitab al-Istibsar - a history of a text
- the 13th- and 14th-century kings of Mali
- a 17th-century chronicle by Ibn al-Mukhtar - a criticals tudy of Ta'rikh al Fattash
- early 19th-century manuscripts from Kumasi.
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