Mauro Nobili

Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith (eBook, ePUB)

Ahmad Lobbo, the Tarikh al-fattash and the Making of an Islamic State in West Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

The Tarikh al-fattash is one of the most important and celebrated sources for the history of pre-colonial West Africa, yet it has confounded scholars for decades with its inconsistences and questions surrounding its authorship. In this study, Mauro Nobili examines and challenges existing theories on the chronicle, arguing that much of what we have presumed about the work is deeply flawed. Making extensive use of previously unpublished Arabic sources, Nobili demonstrates that the Tarikh al-fattash was in fact written in the nineteenth century by a Fulani scholar, Nuh b. al-Tahir, who modified pre-existing historiographical material as a political project in legitimation of the West African Islamic state known as the Caliphate of Hamdallahi and its founding leader Ahmad Lobbo. Contextualizing its production within the broader development of the religious and political landscape of West Africa, this study represents a significant moment in the study of West African history and of the evolution of Arabic historical literature in Timbuktu and its surrounding regions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108802208
• Artikelnr.: 60862058

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.