Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith
A?mad Lobbo, the T?r?kh al-fatt?sh and the Making of an Islamic State in West Africa
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Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith
A?mad Lobbo, the T?r?kh al-fatt?sh and the Making of an Islamic State in West Africa
About this book
The T?r?kh al-fatt?sh is one of the most important and celebrated sources for the history of pre-colonial West Africa, yet it has confounded scholars for decades with its inconsistences and questions surrounding its authorship. In this study, Mauro Nobili examines and challenges existing theories on the chronicle, arguing that much of what we have presumed about the work is deeply flawed. Making extensive use of previously unpublished Arabic sources, Nobili demonstrates that the T?r?kh al-fatt?sh was in fact written in the nineteenth century by a Fulani scholar, N?? b. al-??hir, who modified pre-existing historiographical material as a political project in legitimation of the West African Islamic state known as the Caliphate of ?amdall?hi and its founding leader A?mad Lobbo. Contextualizing its production within the broader development of the religious and political landscape of West Africa, this study represents a significant moment in the study of West African history and of the evolution of Arabic historical literature in Timbuktu and its surrounding regions.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of 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: The Middle Niger, 1810s–1840s
- Part III The Circulation and Reception of the Tārīkh al-fattāsh, 1840s–2010s
- Index