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Migration, Jihad, and Muslim Authority in West Africa

Author : John H. Hanson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253330888
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Migration, Jihad, and Muslim Authority in West Africa written by John H. Hanson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John H. Hanson's pathbreaking study revises late-nineteenth-century colonialist assumptions about a West African Muslim social movement. Using indigenous Arabic manuscripts, travel narratives, and oral materials, Hanson assesses the meaning of a series of revolts against Islamic authority. The book investigates three political crises that took place at Nioro, a town in the region of Karta in the upper Senegal River valley, conquered during a military jihad or "holy war" by Shaykh Umar Tal. Although Umar and his successors steadfastly promoted jihad, Futanke colonists, defying their leaders, opted to remain settled on the lands they had seized; instead of going to war, the colonists devoted themselves to production of foodstuffs for sale in an increasingly vital regional economy. Incisive analysis of charismatic authority and its limits, as demonstrated by Umar and his son Amadu Sheku, illuminates patterns in the unfolding relations between leaders and followers.

A Geography of Jihad

Author : Stephanie Zehnle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110675366
Total Pages : 703 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book A Geography of Jihad written by Stephanie Zehnle and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 African frontier of Islam. Research for this book is based on the study of a very wide range of Arabic and West African (Hausa, Fulfulde) manuscripts. Their policies reveal the persistent reciprocity of jihadist warfare and territorial statehood, of Africa and the Middle East. Stephanie Zehnle is Assistant Professor (JProf) of Extra-European History at Kiel University (Christian-Albrechts-Universität). Her work on African and trans-continental history includes research on the history of Islam, human-animal relations, and comics in Africa.

Jihadist and Salafi Discourses in Sudanic Africa

Author : Amidu Sanni
Publisher : King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS)
ISBN 13 : 6038206159
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Jihadist and Salafi Discourses in Sudanic Africa written by Amidu Sanni and published by King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS). This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Almoravid’s invasion of Ghana in 1062 until the Moroccan conquest of the Songhay Empire in 1591 that, allegedly, was not “sufficiently Muslim,” Africa south of the Sahara has been exposed to a “purification of Islam” project. This project took two forms, one was the quietist, intellectually driven reformism (for instance, the 15th century Moroccan al- Maghili and 16th century Malian Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti d. 1627). The second was militant Islamism, for which the 19th century, better known as the “Jihadist period,” was particularly significant in Sudanic Africa. Maba Diakhou Ba (1809-1867) was active in the Senegambia, ‘Umar Tall (1795-1864) in Central Mali, and ‘Usman dan Fodio (1754-1817) in mainland Central Sudan (Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroun). Since the second half of the 20th century when the shari'a[Islamic Law] was the rule in ‘Usman dan Fodio’s Sokoto Caliphate (1804-1903), the development became a reference point for Jihadist ideologues in Nigeria. The 1979 Iranian Revolution further served as an impetus for political activism and reformist tendencies in Muslim West Africa, ranging from the moderate to the extremist, even before the September 11, 2001 cataclysm in the U.S. The Yan Izala, a pan-Wahhabi literalist, reformist movement to which Abū Bakr Gumi (1924-1992) served as the patron saint, the spirit auctores, provided a platform for both the quietist intellectual Salafī protagonists of Nigeria on the one hand, and the Jihadi Salafi interlocutors on the other. The most illustrious exponent of the latter category is Boko Haram. This paper gives an overview of the history of Salafi and Jihadist narratives in Sudanic Africa with particular attention to Boko Haram of Nigeria, as it now assumes a wider regional profile in Muslim West Africa.

Islam and Muslim Life in West Africa

Author : Abdoulaye Sounaye
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311073320X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Islam and Muslim Life in West Africa written by Abdoulaye Sounaye and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers an examination of issues, institutions and actors that have become central to Muslim life in the region. Focusing on leadership, authority, law, gender, media, aesthetics, radicalization and cooperation, it offers insights into processes that reshape power structures and the experience of being Muslim. It makes room for perspectives from the region in an academic world shaped by scholarship mostly from Europe and America.

Beyond Jihad

Author : Lamin Sanneh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199351635
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Jihad written by Lamin Sanneh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the last 1400 years, Islam has grown from a small band of followers on the Arabian peninsula into a global religion of over a billion believers. How did this happen? The usual answer is that Islam spread by the sword-believers waged jihad against rival tribes and kingdoms and forced them to convert. Lamin Sanneh argues that this is far from the whole story. Beyond Jihad examines the origin and evolution of the African pacifist tradition in Islam, beginning with an inquiry into the faith's origins and expansion in North Africa and its transmission across trans-Saharan trade routes to West Africa. The book focuses on the ways in which, without jihad, the religion spread and took hold, and what that tells us about the nature of religious and social change. At the heart of this process were clerics who used religious and legal scholarship to promote Islam. Once this clerical class emerged, it offered continuity and stability in the midst of political changes and cultural shifts, helping to inhibit the spread of radicalism, and subduing the urge to wage jihad. With its policy of religious and inter-ethnic accommodation, this pacifist tradition took Islam beyond traditional trade routes and kingdoms into remote districts of the Mali Empire, instilling a patient, Sufi-inspired, and jihad-negating impulse into religious life and practice. Islam was successful in Africa, Sanneh argues, not because of military might but because it was made African by Africans who adapted it to a variety of contexts.

Religion, Ethnicity and Transnational Migration Between West Africa and Europe

Author : Stanisław Grodź
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
ISBN 13 : 9789004270367
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Ethnicity and Transnational Migration Between West Africa and Europe written by Stanisław Grodź and published by Brill Academic Pub. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work the contributors analyse the ways in which the Senegalese, Ghanaian and Fulbe migrants in France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland negotiate their religious and ethnic identities.

Islam in West Africa

Author : Nehemia Levtzion
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315295431
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Islam in West Africa written by Nehemia Levtzion and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994, this volume brings together essays from the celebrated scholar of African history, Nehemia Levtzion. The articles cover a wide range of themes including Islamization, Islam in politics, Islamic revolutions and the work of the historian in studying this field. This collection is a rich source of supplementary material to Professor Levtzion’s major publications on Islam in West Africa. This book will be of key interest to those studying Islamic and West African history.

Islam and Christianity in West Africa

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam and Christianity in West Africa written by Toyin Falola and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Controlling Knowledge

Author : Louis Brenner
Publisher : C. Hurst & Co. Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Controlling Knowledge written by Louis Brenner and published by C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controlling Knowledge examines the history of West African Muslim society in the Republic of Mali, formerly the Soudan Franais, in the twentieth century. Focusing on the transformation of Muslim institutions especially modernized Muslim schools (mdersas) and voluntary organizations over the the past hundred years, Louis Brenner uncovers the social and political processes that have produced new forms, definitionsand expressions of Islam that are patently different from those that prevailed a century earlier.

Militancy and Violence in West Africa

Author : James Gow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135968578
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Militancy and Violence in West Africa written by James Gow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a systematic and cross-regional analysis of radicalisation, militancy and violence in West Africa. Concern about terrorism in, or from, West Africa, has been recognised in academic research, and the adoption of militarised approaches to addressing it questioned. However, the basis for that questioning – the need to investigate factors such as the historical and socio-economic roots of militancy – is not developed, nor is it substantiated in existing studies. The significant impact of religiously motivated radicalisation and violence in West Africa upon international security makes it essential to understand the issues of militancy and violence in the region. In this volume, the authors draw upon empirical research in West Africa to develop understanding in these areas. Over the course of several chapters written by leading experts in the field, the book successfully blends historical and conceptual analysis with new empirical research gathered from focus group discussions and research interviews. Each of these core studies is structured around five interrelated issues: tracing the antecedents of radicalisation; monitoring trends; identifying actors; anticipating possibilities; and analysing the strength of existing preventive mechanisms. This book will be of much interest to students of African security, African politics, radicalisation, political Islam, war and conflict studies and security studies in general.

Piety and Power

Author : Lamin O. Sanneh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Piety and Power written by Lamin O. Sanneh and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a unique perspective on historical patterns of religious interaction in West Africa and their meaning for world Christianity and Islam today, this book places the inner-faith issues firmly in an African social setting. Sanneh explores the impact of Islam, Christianity and European mission and colonialism in terms of African adaptations and expressions.

Studies in West African Islamic History

Author : John Ralph Willis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315297310
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Studies in West African Islamic History written by John Ralph Willis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979, this first of three volumes examines the many means and figures through which Islam was cultivated in West Africa over a prolonged period. It combines the work from eminent scholars in the field, most of which have travelled widely in the historic region of Western Sudan. This book will be of interest to those studying Islamic and West African history.

Studies in West African Islamic History

Author : John Ralph Willis
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0714617377
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Studies in West African Islamic History written by John Ralph Willis and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1979. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Unveiling Modernity in Twentieth-Century West African Islamic Reforms

Author : Ousman Murzik Kobo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004215255
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Unveiling Modernity in Twentieth-Century West African Islamic Reforms written by Ousman Murzik Kobo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Ousman Kobo provides a fresh understanding of the indigenous origins of Islamic reforms sympathetic to "Wahhabi" ideas in two West African countries, Burkina Faso and Ghana, and connects these movements to Muslim's search for religious purity in modern contexts.

Islam in West Africa

Author : John Spencer Trimingham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam in West Africa written by John Spencer Trimingham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1959 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folded map in back of book : Religious distribution in West Africa.

Islam and Social Change in French West Africa

Author : Sean Hanretta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521899710
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Islam and Social Change in French West Africa written by Sean Hanretta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the history and religious community of a group of Muslim Sufi mystics in colonial French West Africa, this study shows the relationship between religious, social and economic change in the region. It highlights the role that intellectuals played in shaping social and cultural change and illuminates the specific religious ideas and political contexts that gave their efforts meaning. In contrast to depictions that emphasize the importance of international networks and anti-modern reaction in twentieth-century Islamic reform, this book claims that, in West Africa, such movements were driven by local forces and constituted only the most recent round in a set of centuries-old debates about the best way for pious people to confront social injustice. It argues that traditional historical methods prevent an appreciation of Muslim intellectual history in Africa by misunderstanding the nature of information gathering during colonial rule and misconstruing the relationship between documents and oral history.

Political Islam in West Africa

Author : William F. S. Miles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Political Islam in West Africa written by William F. S. Miles and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the September 11 attacks galvanized Western attention on what has variously been called political Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, and Islamism, African nations with sizeable Muslim populations were experiencing significant transformations in the relationship between religion and state. Political Islam in West Africa explores those ongoing transformations in key countries of the Sahel region. Each country chapter provides both historical context and an examination of the changing nature of domestic politics and foreign policy in the post-September 11 world. Introductory and concluding chapters provide additional context and highlight overarching themes. A notable feature of the book is a comprehensive bibliography of Islamism in West Africa.