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  • 4 - Aḥmad Lobbo, Timbuktu, and the Kunta

  • from Part II - A Contested Space of Competing Claims
  • Mauro Nobili, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Book:
    Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith
    Published online:
    28 February 2020
    Print publication:
    19 March 2020, pp 154-181

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the expansion of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi in the Niger Bend in the 1820s. Aḥmad Lobbo exercised his control over these areas by a combination of coercion, the appointment of local representatives, and the installation of functionaries sent from the capital; but also by seeking, with varying degrees of success, the cooperation of the powerful Kunta scholarly clan of the Niger Bend and Azawād. However, while the Kunta had accepted the rule of Ḥamdallāhi, their support for Aḥmad Lobbo was only partial and limited to political domain. The Kunta never gave up their role as the ultimate religious authority of the region, and tension flared at times between them and Ḥamdallāhi, as in the case of the never-resolved tobacco dispute and that of the Kunta’s mediation with the leaders of rebellions against the caliphate.