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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lovejoy, Paul E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Usuman dan Fodio, 1754-1817.

Usuman dan Fodio.

Islam--Africa, West--History--18th century.

Islam.

Islam--Africa, West--History--19th century.

Jihad.

Sokoto Jihad, 1803-1830.

Islam and state--Africa, West.

Islam and state.

War--Religious aspects--Islam.

War.

West Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2016]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780821445839

0821445839

OCLC:

970610931