Mauro Nobili (Urbana-Champaign University of Illinois)

Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith

Aḥmad Lobbo, the Tārīkh Al-Fattāsh and the Making of an Islamic State in West Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

Representing a significant re-examination of the Tà  rà «kh al-fattà  sh, proved to be one the most important nineteenth-century sources for the history of West Africa, this study makes use of previously unpublished Arabic manuscripts to reveal the true author of the chronicle and its place in the evolution of West African civilization.

Produktdetails

• African Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 289
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9781108789820
• ISBN-10: 110878982X
• Artikelnr.: 63557251

Autorenporträt

Mauro Nobili is Assistant Professor at the Department of History and the Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois. A historian of pre-colonial and early-colonial West Africa, he has published on West African chronicles and Arabic calligraphies including in the journal History of Africa. He has been the recipient of several prestigious awards, including a National Endowment for Humanities grant.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. A Nineteenth Century Chronicle in Support of the Caliphate of Hamdall
hi: N
B. Al-
hir's T
r
kh al-fatt
sh: 1. A century of scholarship; 2. The T
r
kh al-fatt
sh: a nineteenth-century chronicle; Part II. A Contested Space of Compating Claims: the Middle Niger, 1810s
1840s; 3. The emergence of clerical rule in the Middle Niger; 4. A
mad Lobbo, Timbuktu, and the Kunta; 5. Fluctuating diplomacy:
amdall
hi and Sokoto; Part III. The Circulation and Reception of the T
r
kh al-fatt
sh, 1840s
2010s: 6. The T
r
kh al-fatt
sh at work; Conclusion.