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Sultan, caliph and the renewer of the faith : Aḥmad Lobbo, the Tārīkh al-fattāsh and the making of an Islamic state in West Africa / Mauro Nobili.
LIBRA DT551.65 .N63 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nobili, Mauro, author.
- Series:
- African studies series ; 148.
- African studies series ; 148
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shehu Ahmadu Lobbo, 1775 or 1776-1844 or 1845.
- Shehu Ahmadu Lobbo.
- Nūḥ ibn al-Ṭāhir, -1857 or 1858.
- Nūḥ ibn al-Ṭāhir.
- Tārīkh al-fattāsh.
- Fula (African people)--Kings and rulers--Historiography.
- Fula (African people).
- Islam and state--Sudan (Region)--History--19th century.
- Islam and state.
- Historiography.
- History.
- Fula (African people)--Kings and rulers.
- Macina (Empire)--History--19th century.
- Macina (Empire).
- Hamdallahi (Mali)--History.
- Hamdallahi (Mali).
- Inland Niger Delta (Mali)--History--19th century.
- Inland Niger Delta (Mali).
- Sudan (Region)--History--19th century.
- Sudan (Region).
- Macina (Empire)--Historiography.
- Sudan (Region)--Historiography.
- Mali--Macina (Empire).
- Mali--Hamdallahi.
- Mali--Inland Niger Delta.
- Sudan Region.
- Shehu Ahmadu Lobbo, 1775 or 6-1844 or 5.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 262 pages: illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "This book is a study of the West African chronicle known as the Tārīkh al-fattāsh (The Chronicle of the Inquisitive Researcher) and its role in advancing a political project, the legitimation of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi (1818-1862), located in what is now the Republic of Mali. In reconstructing this story, I have brought together two bodies of literature that have often crossed paths, but whose relationship until now has not been fully exploited. The first is the critical scholarship produced over the past hundred years or more on the Tārīkh al-fattāsh. The second is the scholarly literature on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century West Africa Islamic revolutions and the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on orthography and other conventions
- Introduction
- part 1. A nineteenth-century chronicle in support of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi : Nūḥ b. al-Ṭāhir's Tārīkh al-fattāsh.
- A century of scholarship
- The Tārīkh al-fattāsh : a nineteenth-century chronicle.
- part 2. A contested space of competing claims : the Middle Niger, 1810s-1840s.
- The emergence of clerical rule in the Middle Niger
- Aḥmad Lobbo, Timbuktu, and the Kunta
- Fluctuating diplomacy : Ḥamdallāhi and Sokoto.
- part 3. The circulation and reception of the Tārīkh al-fattāsh, 1840s-2010s.
- The Tārīkh al-fattāsh at work
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781108479509
- 1108479502
- 9781108789820
- 110878982X
- OCLC:
- 1121424870
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