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Muslim societies in African history
- Title
- Muslim societies in African history / David Robinson.
- Author
- Robinson, David, 1938-
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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- Description
- xx, 220 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- New approaches to African history
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- I. The historical and institutional background. Muhammad and the birth of Islam -- The basic institutions of Islam -- II. General themes. The islamization of Africa -- The africanization of Islam -- Muslim identity and the slave trades -- Western views of Africa and Islam -- III. Case studies. Morocco: Muslims in a "Muslim nation" -- Ethiopia: Muslims in a "Christian nation" -- Asante and Kumasi: a Muslim minority in a "sea of paganism" -- Sokoto and Hausaland: jihad within the Dar al-Islam -- Buganda: religious competition for the kingdom -- The Sudan: the Mahdi and Khalifa amid competing imperialisms -- Senegal: Bamba and the Murids under French colonial rule -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- Sc E 05-294
- ISBN
- 0521826276
- 052153366X (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2003055137
- OCLC
- 54080187
- Author
- Robinson, David, 1938-
- Title
- Muslim societies in African history / David Robinson.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Series
- New approaches to African history
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Research Call Number
- Sc E 05-294