African dominion : a new history of empire in early and medieval West Africa / Michael A. Gomez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gomez, Michael A., 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Africa, West--History.

Islam.

Slavery.

History.

West Africa.

Slavery--Africa, West--History.

Africa, West--History--To 1884.

Africa, West.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 505 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691177427

0691177422

OCLC:

983824904