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A Geography of Jihad
This book addresses the Jihad movement that created the largest African state of the 19th century: the Sokoto Caliphate, existing for 99 years from 1804 until its military defeat by European colonial troops in 1903. The author carves out the entanglements of jihadist ideology and warfare with geographical concepts at Africa’s periphery of the Islamic world: geographical knowledge about the boundary between the “Land of Islam” and the “Land of War”; the pre-colonial construction of “the Muslim” and “the unbeliever”; and the transfer of ideas between political elites and mobile actors (traders, pilgrims, slaves, soldiers), whose reports helped shape new definitions of the Afr...
The Caliph's Sister
A new light is shed on African women of the Sahel in this book about a brilliantly intelligent 19th century woman-jihadist whose legacy of verse contains political and social commentary.
Muslim Women Sing
An intimate portrait of life and artistry among Hausa women singers.
Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical, Relating to Interior Pennsylvania, for the Year 1883
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
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