Mary Wren Bivins

Telling Stories, Making Histories (eBook, PDF)

Women, Words, and Islam in Nineteenth-Century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Through reconstruction of oral testimony, folk stories and poetry, the true history of Hausa women and their reception of Islam's vision of Muslim in Western Africa have been uncovered. Mary Wren Bivins is the first author to locate and examine the oral texts of the 19th century Hausa women and challenge the written documentation of the Sokoto Caliphate. The personal narratives and folk stories reveal the importance of illiterate, non-elite women to the history of jihad and the assimilation of normative Islam in rural Hausaland. The captivating lives of the Hausa are captured, shedding light on their ordinary existence as wives, mothers, and providers for their family on the eve of European colonial conquest.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313094422
• Artikelnr.: 68527918

Autorenporträt

Mary Wren Bivins is Visiting Assistant Professor at SUNY Oswego in New York. Much of her expertise stems from her own experiences teaching in Nigeria, Niger, Zaria and Kano, where she has lived over the past 30 years of her life.