Paul Naylor (Person)

From Rebels to Rulers

Writing Legitimacy in the Early Sokoto State

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Produktbeschreibung

A reinterpretation of the history of Sokoto that provides a new assessment of its leaders and their visions for the Muslim state.

Produktdetails

• Religion in Transforming Africa
• Verlag: James Currey
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9781847013705
• ISBN-10: 1847013708
• Artikelnr.: 68411379

Autorenporträt

PAUL NAYLOR is a Cataloguer of West African Manuscripts at the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, Minnesota. He has held teaching positions at Loyola University Chicago and Tulane University's Africana Studies Program.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Arabic Writings of the Fodiawa in their Context A History
of the Historiography Approaching Legitimacy 1. Sources of Legitimacy in
the Nineteenth-Century Sahel Fiqh Kashf Nasab Conclusion 2. Discourses of
Dissent and Moderation Laying Claims to Legitimacy: Usman's Writings in the
1790s A Discourse of Dissent (c.1804-1810) A Discourse of Moderation
(1810-1812) The Intellectual Challenge of Abdullahi dan Fodio (c.1812-1817)
Conclusion: from Ijtihad to Taqlid 3. 'Lesser of two evils': The Succession
of Muhammad Bello Defending the Succession (1817) A Second Jihad
(1817-1821) 'Fear them not, but fear me': Enforcing Obedience to Bello's
Rule Creating a Caliphate: Bello's Exchanges with Ahmad Lobbo Conclusion
4. 'God has subjugated this land for me': Bello's Rule of Sokoto 1821-1837
Policies of Integration: The Hausa Policies of Enslavement Policies of
Exclusion: The Tuareg Policies of Sedentarisation: The Fulani Meanwhile, in
Gwandu... Conclusion Appendix: Sokoto Chronology Bibliography