Cover; CONTENTS; TABLES; MAPS; PLATES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; GLOSSARY; ORTHOGRAPHY; INTRODUCTION; 1 THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONS ANDTHE ATLANTIC WORLD; 2 THE ORIGINS OF JIHĀD INWEST AFRICA; 3 THE JIHĀD OF ʿUTHMĀN DANFODIO IN THE CENTRALBILĀD AL-SŪDĀN; 4 THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OFJIHĀD IN WEST AFRICA; 5 JIHĀD AND THE SLAVE TRADE; 6 THE REPERCUSSIONS OF JIHĀDIN THE AMERICAS; 7 SOKOTO, THE JIHĀD STATES, ANDTHE ABOLITION OF THE ATLANTICSLAVE TRADE; 8 EMPOWERING HISTORY; APPENDIX; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary
In Jihād in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world have not given Africa its due consideration as part of either the Atlantic world or the age of revolutions
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-384) and index
