Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith Ahmad Lobbo, the <I>Tārīkh al-fattāsh</I> and the Making of an Islamic State in West Africa
Book contents
- Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith
- African Studies Series
- Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Orthography and Other Conventions
- Introduction
- Part I A Nineteenth-Century Chronicle in Support of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi: Nūḥ b. al-Ṭāhir’s Tārīkh al-fattāsh
- Part II A Contested Space of Competing Claims
- Part III The Circulation and Reception of the Tārīkh al-fattāsh, 1840s–2010s
- Index
- African Studies Series
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2020
Book contents
- Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith
- African Studies Series
- Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Orthography and Other Conventions
- Introduction
- Part I A Nineteenth-Century Chronicle in Support of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi: Nūḥ b. al-Ṭāhir’s Tārīkh al-fattāsh
- Part II A Contested Space of Competing Claims
- Part III The Circulation and Reception of the Tārīkh al-fattāsh, 1840s–2010s
- Index
- African Studies Series
Summary
This book is a study of the West African chronicle known as the Tārīkh al-fattāsh (The Chronicle of the Inquisitive Researcher) and its role in advancing a political project, the legitimation of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi (1818–1862), located in what is now the Republic of Mali. In reconstructing this story, I have brought together two bodies of literature that have often crossed paths, but whose relationship has not been fully explored until now. The first is the critical scholarship produced over the past hundred years or more on the Tārīkh al-fattāsh.
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- Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the FaithAhmad Lobbo, the <I>Tārīkh al-fattāsh</I> and the Making of an Islamic State in West Africa, pp. 1 - 38Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020