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

M Hiskett 1994 © Northwestern University Press
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  • 9780810111158 (paper)
Subject
  • African
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  • Frontmatter
  • ABBREVIATIONS (page xxxi)
  • ARABIC SOURCES (page xxxiii)
  • LIST OF HAUSA POEMS (page xxxv)
  • I. INTRODUCTION (page 3)
    • The Early History of Hausaland (page 3)
    • The Establishment of Islam in Hausaland (page 5)
    • The Beginnings of the Islamic Reform Movement (page 7)
    • The Fulani Caliphate of Sokoto (page 9)
    • The British Conquest of Hausaland (page 12)
  • II. THE YEARS OF PREPARATION (page 15)
    • The Shehu's Early Life and Domestic Environment (page 17)
    • The Community at Worship (page 26)
    • The Shehu as a Young Man in Degel (page 30)
    • Education and Intellectual Life among the Muslim Fulani: The Schools (page 33)
    • The Curriculum (page 36)
    • The Teachers (page 39)
  • III. PREACHER AND MISSIONARY (page 42)
    • The Early Period of Itinerant Missionary Work (page 42)
    • Increasing Involvement in the Politics of the Gobir Court (page 46)
    • The Nature and Purpose of His Preaching (page 49)
    • The Preacher (page 56)
  • IV. THE SWORD OF TRUTH (page 59)
    • Sufism in Western Sudan (page 59)
    • The Sufi Allegiance of the Muslim Fulani (page 60)
    • The Sufi Revival of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (page 61)
    • The Shehu's Personal Mystical Experiences (page 63)
  • V. PRELUDE TO WAR (page 70)
    • The Gimbana Affair (page 71)
    • The Act of Allegiance at Gudu (page 73)
    • Popular Support for the Shehu (page 74)
    • The Undercurrent of Islam (page 76)
    • Slavery (page 77)
    • The Conflict of Interest between Nomads and Peasants (page 79)
  • VI. HOLY WAR IN THE WAY OF GOD (page 81)
    • The Terrain of the Campaigns (page 81)
    • The Two Armies (page 82)
    • The Battle of Tabkin Kwotto to the Battle of Alwassa, November 1805 (page 87)
    • December 1805 to the Fall of Alkalawa, September 1808 (page 94)
    • 1809-12: The Founding of the Fulani Empire (page 98)
    • Reasons for Muslims' Success (page 100)
    • The Shehu's Hijra and His Personal Contribution to the Holy War (page 102)
  • VII. THE AFTERMATH (page 105)
    • The Failure of Ideals (page 105)
    • The Muslim Rebels (page 107)
    • The Bornu Correspondence (page 109)
    • The Sifawa Period (page 110)
    • The Division of Authority and the Succession (page 113)
    • Abdullah b. Muhammad and Muhammad Bello (page 114)
  • VIII. THEOLOGIAN AND DOGMATIST (page 116)
    • His Intellectual Assumptions (page 116)
    • Some Important Theological Works (page 118)
    • The Debt to al-Maghili (page 120)
    • The Doctrine to the Renewer of the Faith (page 121)
    • The Status of Sinners and the Nature of Unbelief (page 125)
    • Religious Ignorance, Charlatanism, and Venality (page 128)
    • The Relation of the Reform Movement to Wahhabism (page 131)
  • IX. FOUND OF THE STATE AND LAWGIVER (page 134)
    • The Model (page 134)
    • The Reformers' Constitutional Theory and Practice (page 136)
    • The Moral Basis of the Constitution (page 146)
  • X. EPILOGUE (page 150)
    • "Canonization" and the Miracle Tradition (page 150)
    • The Extent of the Reformers' Achievement (page 152)
    • The Intellectual Consequences of the Reform Movement (page 156)
    • The Conflict Between Islamic Teaching and African Ideas of Life and Death (page 158)
    • The Continuing Role of Sufism (page 161)
    • The Legacy of Islamic Conservatism (page 163)
    • Islam in the Recent History of Nigeria (page 165)
  • A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 165)
    • A. Islam, General Background (page 170)
    • B. West Africa (page 171)
  • APPENDIX I: A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY (page 177)
  • APPENDIX II: EXPLANATORY NOTES TO MAPS (page 185)
  • INDEX (page 189)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AHR 80.3 (Jun. 1975): 669 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1854380
IJAHS 28.2 (1995): 474-476 http://www.jstor.org/stable/221672
IJAHS 8.2 (1975): 324-325 http://www.jstor.org/stable/216670
JAFH 17.2 (1976): 313-315 http://www.jstor.org/stable/180407
JIH 5.2 (Autumn. 1974): 354-355 http://www.jstor.org/stable/202527
BSOAS 37.3 (1974): 728-730 http://www.jstor.org/stable/613851
AFRI 45.1 (1975): 99 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1158786
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