Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith 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
- 6 The Tārīkh al-fattāsh at Work
- Conclusion
- Index
- African Studies Series
Conclusion
from Part III - The Circulation and Reception of the Tārīkh al-fattāsh, 1840s–2010s
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2020
- 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
- 6 The Tārīkh al-fattāsh at Work
- Conclusion
- Index
- African Studies Series
Summary
This book has contributed to two different historiographies: that of the Tārīkh al-fattāsh, one of the most important sources for pre-colonial African history; and that of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi and other West African Islamic revolutions. By uncovering the inextricable histories of the chronicle and of the caliphate, I have analyzed how the Tārīkh al-fattāsh legitimized Aḥmad Lobbo against the challenges to his position as a new ruler in the Middle Niger. His emergence represented a break with local tradition because his claims to power rested on both political and religious (Islamic) authority.
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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. 243 - 254Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020