The sword of truth: the life and times of the Shehu Usuman dan Fodio

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter

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• ABBREVIATIONS (page xxxi)

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• ARABIC SOURCES (page xxxiii)

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• LIST OF HAUSA POEMS (page xxxv)

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• I. INTRODUCTION (page 3)
  • The Early History of Hausaland (page 3)

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  • The Establishment of Islam in Hausaland (page 5)

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  • The Beginnings of the Islamic Reform Movement (page 7)

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  • The Fulani Caliphate of Sokoto (page 9)

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  • The British Conquest of Hausaland (page 12)

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• II. THE YEARS OF PREPARATION (page 15)
  • The Shehu's Early Life and Domestic Environment (page 17)

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  • The Community at Worship (page 26)

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  • The Shehu as a Young Man in Degel (page 30)

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  • Education and Intellectual Life among the Muslim Fulani: The Schools (page 33)

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  • The Curriculum (page 36)

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  • The Teachers (page 39)

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• III. PREACHER AND MISSIONARY (page 42)
  • The Early Period of Itinerant Missionary Work (page 42)

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  • Increasing Involvement in the Politics of the Gobir Court (page 46)

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  • The Nature and Purpose of His Preaching (page 49)

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  • The Preacher (page 56)

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• IV. THE SWORD OF TRUTH (page 59)
  • Sufism in Western Sudan (page 59)

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  • The Sufi Allegiance of the Muslim Fulani (page 60)

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  • The Sufi Revival of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (page 61)

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  • The Shehu's Personal Mystical Experiences (page 63)

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• V. PRELUDE TO WAR (page 70)
  • The Gimbana Affair (page 71)

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  • The Act of Allegiance at Gudu (page 73)

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  • Popular Support for the Shehu (page 74)

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  • The Undercurrent of Islam (page 76)

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  • Slavery (page 77)

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  • The Conflict of Interest between Nomads and Peasants (page 79)

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• VI. HOLY WAR IN THE WAY OF GOD (page 81)
  • The Terrain of the Campaigns (page 81)

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  • The Two Armies (page 82)

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  • The Battle of Tabkin Kwotto to the Battle of Alwassa, November 1805 (page 87)

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  • December 1805 to the Fall of Alkalawa, September 1808 (page 94)

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  • 1809-12: The Founding of the Fulani Empire (page 98)

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  • Reasons for Muslims' Success (page 100)

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  • The Shehu's Hijra and His Personal Contribution to the Holy War (page 102)

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• VII. THE AFTERMATH (page 105)
  • The Failure of Ideals (page 105)

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  • The Muslim Rebels (page 107)

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  • The Bornu Correspondence (page 109)

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  • The Sifawa Period (page 110)

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  • The Division of Authority and the Succession (page 113)

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  • Abdullah b. Muhammad and Muhammad Bello (page 114)

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• VIII. THEOLOGIAN AND DOGMATIST (page 116)
  • His Intellectual Assumptions (page 116)

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  • Some Important Theological Works (page 118)

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  • The Debt to al-Maghili (page 120)

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  • The Doctrine to the Renewer of the Faith (page 121)

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  • The Status of Sinners and the Nature of Unbelief (page 125)

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  • Religious Ignorance, Charlatanism, and Venality (page 128)

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  • The Relation of the Reform Movement to Wahhabism (page 131)

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• IX. FOUND OF THE STATE AND LAWGIVER (page 134)
  • The Model (page 134)

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  • The Reformers' Constitutional Theory and Practice (page 136)

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  • The Moral Basis of the Constitution (page 146)

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• X. EPILOGUE (page 150)
  • "Canonization" and the Miracle Tradition (page 150)

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  • The Extent of the Reformers' Achievement (page 152)

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  • The Intellectual Consequences of the Reform Movement (page 156)

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  • The Conflict Between Islamic Teaching and African Ideas of Life and Death (page 158)

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  • The Continuing Role of Sufism (page 161)

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  • The Legacy of Islamic Conservatism (page 163)

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  • Islam in the Recent History of Nigeria (page 165)

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• A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 165)
  • A. Islam, General Background (page 170)

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  • B. West Africa (page 171)

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• APPENDIX I: A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY (page 177)

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• APPENDIX II: EXPLANATORY NOTES TO MAPS (page 185)

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• INDEX (page 189)

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