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  • Frobenius-Institut  (12)
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  • 1990-1994  (9)
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  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press  (11)
  • Boston : Boston University, African Studies Center
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  • 1
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    United States foreign policy toward Africa : incrementalism, crisis and change (1994)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-46677-6 , 978-0-521-46677-6 , 0-521-44439-X , 978-0-521-44439-2
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiii, 347 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in International Relations 31
    Keywords: Afrika USA ; Demokratische Republik Kongo ; Äthiopen ; Somalia ; Südafrika ; Beziehungen, internationale ; Politik ; Außenpolitik ; Geschichte ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: In this book Peter Schraeder offers the first comprehensive theoretical analysis of US foreign policy toward Africa in the postwar era. He argues that though we often assume that US policymakers 'speak with one voice', Washington's foreign policy is, however, derived from numerous centres of power which each have the ability to pull policy in different directions. The book describes the evolution of policy at three levels: Presidents and their close advisors; the bureaucracies of the executive branch; and Congress and African affairs interest groups. Most importantly, the evidence presented demonstrates that the nature of events in Africa has itself affected the operation of the US policymaking process, and the substance of US policy. Drawing on over 100 interviews, and detailed case studies in Zaire, Ethiopia-Somalia and South Africa, this book provides a unique analysis of the historical evolution of US foreign policy towards Africa from the 1940s to the 1990s.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. An introduction to US foreign policy toward Africa; 2. Pattern and process in US foreign policy toward Africa; 3. US foreign policy toward Zaire; 4. US foreign policy toward Ethiopia and Somalia; 5. US foreign policy toward South Africa; 6. US Africa policies in the post-Cold War era.
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  • 2
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    West African slavery and Atlantic commerce : the Senegal River valley, 1700-1860 (1993)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-44083-1 , 978-0-521-44083-7
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 250 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 77
    Keywords: Westafrika Senegal ; Senegambien ; Sklavenhandel ; Sklaverei ; Sklavenhandel, atlantischer ; Geschichte
    Abstract: West African societies were transformed by the slave trade, even in regions where few slaves were exported. While many books have been written on the import and export trade and on warrior predation, Dr Searing's concern is with the effects of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the Senegal river valley in the eighteenth century. He shows that the growth of the Atlantic trade stimulated the development of slavery within West Africa. Slaves worked as seamen in the river and coasting trades, produced surplus grain to feed slaves in transit, and sometimes came to hold pivotal positions in the political structure of the coastal kingdoms of Senegambia. This local slave system had far-reaching consequences, leading to religious protest and slave rebellions. The changes in agricultural production fostered an ecological crisis. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- Preface -- 1 - Cosaan: "the origins" -- 2 - Slavery and the slave trade in the Lower Senegal -- 3 - The Atlantic kingdom: maritime commerce and social change -- 4 - Merchants and slaves: slavery on Saint Louis and Gorée -- 5 - Famine, civil war, and secession, 1750-1800 -- 6 - From river empire to colony: Saint Louis and Senegal, 1800-1860 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
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  • 3
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    A _South African kingdom : the pursuit of security in nineteenth-century Lesotho (1993)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-44067-X , 978-0-521-44067-7
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 250 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 78
    Keywords: Südafrika Lesotho ; Sotho ; Wirtschaft ; Geschichte ; Politik
    Abstract: The BaSotho kingdom emerged and consolidated in the dramatic and dangerous environment of nineteenth-century South Africa. Elizabeth Eldridge provides a rich description of local agriculture, iron-working and craft industries, bringing out the resourceful responses of the BaSotho to the challenge of drought and famine, and explaining the dynamics of the competition for land. During the colonial period, regional economic integration increasingly influenced local production, land use and internal politics, and drew the BaSotho into the regional migrant labor system. Throughout these turbulent years, the overriding interest of the BaSotho was the pursuit of security. Dr. Eldredge analyzes the epic struggle which bound together rich and poor, chiefs and commoners, and men and women in a largely successful effort to sustain this fragile and innovative society in the face of political threats and environmental challenges. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviation -- Note on orthography and terminology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Settlement and trade patterns before 1830 -- 3. Political consolidation and the rise of Moshoeshoe in the 1820s -- 4. The land of the BaSotho: the geographic extent of Moshoeshoe's authority, 1824-1864 -- 5. The European intrusion and the competition for land, 1834-1868 -- 6. Food and politics: feasts and famines -- 7. The rise and decline of craft specialization -- 8. The allocation of labor, 1830-1910 -- 9. The local exchange of goods and services, 1830-1910 -- 10. Women, reproduction, and production -- 11. The BaSotho and the rise of the regional European market, 1830-1910 -- 12. The colonial imposition and the failure of the local economy, 1871-1910 -- 13. Economy, politics, migrant labor, and gender -- 14. In pursuit of security -- Appendix: Note on oral sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 234-244
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  • 4
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    The _Kanyok of Zaire : an institutional and ideolgical history to 1895 (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-41298-6 , 978-0-521-41298-8
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 213 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 74
    Keywords: Luba Demokratische Republik Kongo ; Kaniok ; Yaka ; Ethnohistorie ; Geschichte ; Mythos und Legende
    Abstract: In this study John Yoder chronicles the history of the Kanyok, a people from the southern savanna of Zaire, from before 1500 until their incorporation into the Congo Free State in the 1890s. By analysing their oral histories, myths, and legends, he describes the political and cultural development of a people who, before 1891, had no written records. Yoder sets his work firmly within the larger context of the southern savanna by extending his investigations to the traditions of neighbouring peoples, in particular to the Luba and the Lunda, whose empires once dominated the region. In this way he demonstrates how the same stories and ideas circulated over a vast area but were continually adapted to local circumstances. Yoder's history of the Kanyok of Zaire thereby forms the nucleus for a broader and more composite understanding of the entire region. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps and figures -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction -- 1 - Wood and wine, gardens and game -- 2 - Stratification, symbols, and spirits -- 3 - New legends for new leaders -- 4 - Serpents and lightning -- 5 - Dances, moats, and myths -- Appendix: Methodology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 188-197
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  • 5
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    Pragmatism in the age of Jihad : the precolonial state of Bundu (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-41940-9 , 978-0-521-41940-6
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 252 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 75
    Keywords: Senegal Westafrika ; Geschichte ; Geschichte, vorkoloniale ; Islam ; Islam und Politik ; Sy, Malick [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: Bundu was an anomaly among the precolonial Muslim states of West Africa. Founded during the jihads which swept the savannah in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it developed a pragmatic policy, unique in the midst of fundamentalist, theocratic Muslim states. Located in the Upper Senegal and with access to the Upper Gambia, Bundu played a critical role in regional commerce and production and reacted quickly to the stimulus of European trade. Drawing upon a wide range of sources both oral and documentary, Arabic, English and French, Dr Gomez provides the first full account of Bundu's history. He analyses the foundation and growth of an Islamic state at a crossroads between the Saharan and trans-Atlantic trade, paying particular attention to the relationship between Islamic thought and court policy, and to the state's response to militant Islam in the early nineteenth century. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Notes on spelling -- 1 - Introduction -- 2 - Malik Sy and the origins of a pragmatic polity -- 3 - Consolidation and expansion in the eighteenth century -- 4 - External reforms and internal consequences: Futa Toro and Bundu -- 5 - The reassertion of Sissibe integrity -- 6 - Structure of the Bundunke almaamate -- 7 - Struggle for the Upper Senegal Valley -- 8 - Al-hajj Umar in Bundu -- 9 - The age of Bokar Saada -- 10 - Mamadu Lamine and the demise of Bundu -- 11 - Conclusion -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 230-240
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  • 6
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    Ethiopia : power and protest : peasant revolts in the twentieth century (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-40011-2 , 978-0-521-40011-4
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 272 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 71
    Keywords: Äthiopien Eritrea ; Tigray ; Oromo ; Amhara ; Geschichte ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Landbevölkerung ; Landarbeiter ; Landrecht ; Revolte ; Politische Bewegung ; Konflikt, ethnischer ; Haile Selassie I., Äthiopien, Kaiser [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: This study of popular protest and resistance in Ethiopia focuses on three important peasant-based rebellions that occurred between 1941 and 1970. The author attempts to uncover certain key features of popular protest in pre-revolutionary Ethiopia. Drawing upon ample evidence, he concludes that these revolts were not a consequence of capitalist exploitation, as was usually the case in most Third World countries, but were connected with the rise of a modern, bureaucratic, multi-ethnic national state. Ethiopian peasants were neither conservative nor compliant, as is often assumed, although their defiance was nevertheless essentially non-revolutionary. These interesting and fresh findings also suggest a possible explanation for the eruption and intensification of armed conflict in rural Ethiopia after 1974. On a theoretical level, the study makes a significant contribution to the ongoing analysis of social movements in agrarian societies. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Glossary -- Explanatory notes -- 1. Introduction: an historical/theoretical overview -- Part I. Society and History -- 2. The historical context -- 3. The social context -- Part II. Resistance and Repression -- 4. Tigrai: provincialism versus centralism -- 5. Bale: the nationalities armed -- 6. Gojjam: a vendée revolt? -- 7. Conclusions -- Epilogue: from rebellion to revolution? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 252-260
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  • 7
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    Turko-Persia in historical perspective : First published (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-39094-X , 978-0-521-39094-1
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 256 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [31]
    Series Statement: A _School of American Research Book [31]
    Keywords: Naher Osten Zentral-Asien ; Turk-Volk ; Geschichte
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- List of contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: the Turko-Persian tradition, ROBERT L. CANFIELD -- 2 Pre-Islamic and early Islamic cultures in Central Asia, RICHARD N. FRYE -- 3 Turko-Mongol influences in Central Asia, YURIBREGEL -- 4 Islamic culture and literature in Iran and Central Asia in the early modern period, MICHEL M. MAZZAOUI -- 5 Perso-Islamic culture in India from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, FRANCIS ROBINSON -- 6 Theological "extremism" and social movements in Turko-Persia, ROBERT L. CANFIELD -- 7 Local knowledge of Islam and social discourse in Afghanistan and Turkistan in the modern period, M. NAZIF SHAHRANI --8 Russia's geopolitical and ideological dilemmas in Central Asia, MILAN HAUNER -- Chronology of events and developments in the history of the Turko-Persian ecumene -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 230-248"Advanced Seminar on "Central Asia as a Culture Area" held at the School of American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 15 to 19, 1985" (Preface)Enthält 8 Beiträge
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  • 8
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    The _Nupe invasion of Etsakoland : its impact on the socio-political development of the Etsako clans, c. 1860-1897 (1990)
    Boston : Boston University, African Studies Center
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    Language: English
    Pages: 16 Seiten
    Series Statement: African Studies Center Working Papers 149
    Keywords: Westafrika Nigeria ; Etsako ; Nupe ; Geschichte, politische ; Geschichte
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  • 9
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    Slavery and African life : occidental, oriental and African slave trades (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-34867-6 , 978-0-521-34867-6 , 0-521-34396-8 /Hb. , 978-0-521-34396-1 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 236 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 67
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte ; Ethnohistorie ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Demographie ; Politische Ökonomie ; Anthropologie, politische ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Kulturwandel ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Abolition ; Methodologie ; Sozialwissenschaft
    Abstract: This interpretation of the impact of slavery on African life emphasizes the importance of external demand for slaves - from Occidental and Oriental purchasers - in developing an active trade in slaves within Africa. The book summarizes a wide range of recent literature on slavery for all of tropical Africa. It analyzes the demography, economics, social structure, and ideology of slavery in Africa from the beginning of large-scale slave exports in the seventeenth century to the gradual elimination of slavery in the twentieth century.While the book is primarily a general survey, it presents original research and analysis, especially in the author's demographic model, computer simulation of the slave trade, and analysis of slave prices. The demographic, economic, and social analyses are carefully introduced, so that the book may serve not only as a general introduction to African slavery for an undergraduate audience, but as a primer on interdisciplinary application of social science methodolgy. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of plates -- List of figures -- List of maps -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: Tragedy and sacrifice in the history of slavery -- 1 The political economy of slavery in Africa -- 2 Why Africans? The rise of the slave trade to 1700 2-- 3 Slavery and the African population: a demographic model -- 4 The quantitative impact of the slave trade, 1700-1900 -- 5 The economics and morality of slave supply -- 6 Patterns of slave life -- 7 Transformations of slavery and society ,1650-1900 -- 8 The end of slavery -- 9 The world and Africa -- Appendix 1: Slave prices -- Appendix 2: The demographic simulation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 212-226
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    A _modern history of Tanganyika (1979)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-22024-6 , 978-0-521-22024-8 , 0-521-29611-0 /Pbk. , 978-0-521-29611-3 /Pbk. , 0-521-29612-9 /Pbk. for sale in Africa , 978-0-521-29612-0 /Pbk. for sale in Africa
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 616 Seiten , Graphen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 25
    Keywords: Tansania Tanganjika ; Geschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Kolonie, deutsch ; Arusha ; Dschagga ; Fipa ; Haya ; Kerewe ; Kimbu ; Bena ; Luguru ; Makonde ; Massai ; Meru ; Mwera ; Nyakyusa ; Nyamwezi ; Pare ; Pogoro ; Sandawe ; Shambala ; Sukuma ; Yao (Bantu) ; Maji-Maji ; Kulturwandel ; Arbeiterklasse ; Kapitalismus ; Eisenbahn ; Nyerere, Julius K. [Leben und Werk] ; African Association (Tanzania) ; Rabitah al-Ifriqiyah (Tanzania) 〉 African Association (Tanzania)
    Abstract: This is the first comprehensive and fully documented history of modern Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania). After introductory chapters on the nineteenth century, Dr Iliffe concentrates on the colonial period, and especially on economic, social and intellectual change among Africans as the core of their colonial experience and the basis of their political behaviour. Particularl attention is paid to the consequences for small-scale societies of their incorporation into the international order; the impact of capitlaism and the emergence of capitalist relationships and attitudes; African attempts to defend or reform indigenous institutions and to organise movements of protest or revolt against European control; the successive formation and dissolution of a specifically colonial society; and the effects of economic change on Tanganyika's ecology in modern times. The book brings together the research which scholars of many nationalities have carried out in Tanzania over the last twenty years, and attempts to synthesise their findings with the evidence available from African and European records in Tanzania, Britain and Germany. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps and tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Terminology -- Abbreviations -- Map I - Tanganyika -- 1 - Intentions -- 2 - Tanganyika in 1800 -- 3 - The nineteenth century -- 4 - The German conquest -- 5 - Colonial economy and ecological crisis, 1890-1914 -- 6 - The Maji Maji rebellion, 1905-7 -- 7 - Religious and cultural change before 1914 -- 8 - Fortunes of war -- 9 - The origins of rural capitalism -- 10 - The creation of tribes -- 11 - The crisis of colonial society, 1929-45 -- 12 - Townsmen and workers -- 13 - The African Association, 1929-48 -- 14 - The new colonialism -- 15 - The new politics, 1945-55 -- 16 - The nationalist victory, 1955-61 -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 577-594
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    Warfare in the Sokoto Caliphate : historical and sociological perspectives (1977)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-21069-0 , 978-0-521-21069-0
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 228 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 19
    Keywords: Westafrika Guinea ; Kamerun ; Nigeria ; Sokoto, Kalifat ; Geschichte ; Krieg ; Kriegsführung ; Krieg und Gesellschaft ; Hausa ; Fulah Empire ; Fulani ; Waffe
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations and Tables -- Preface -- Conventions and Abbreviations -- General Glossary -- Part One: Historical Perspectives -- 1 Introduction: Sudanic Warfare and Military Organization to c. 1800 -- 2 The Jihad Period, c. 1790-1817 -- 3 Military Organization in the Sokoto Caliphate, c. 1817-1860 -- 4 Organization for Defense and Security -- 5 The Theory and Practice of War -- 6 The Firearms Trade in the Central Sudan: The Expansion of the "Gun-frontier" -- 7 Firearms in the Sokoto Caliphate, c. 1860-1903 -- Part Two: Sociological Perspectives -- 8 The Evolution of Politico-Military Organization in the Sokoto Caliphate, c. 1790-1903 -- 9 The Functions of War in the Sokoto Caliphate -- 10 Warfare in the Sokoto Caliphate: Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- A Glossary of Hausa-Fulani Military Titles -- A Glossary of Hausa Military Terminology -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 203-215"Originally prepared as a doctoral thesis at Northwestern University (1970). Since then it has been revised [...]" (Preface) , Ph.D. thesis, Northwestern University, 1970, entitled Historical and sociological aspects of warfare in the Sokoto Caliphate.
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    Muslim brotherhoods in nineteenth-century Africa (1976)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-21062-3 , 978-0-521-21062-1
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 267 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 18
    Keywords: Afrika Algerien ; Westafrika ; Guinea ; Senegal ; Mali ; Libyen ; Somalia ; Mauretanien ; Islam ; Sufismus ; Muslime ; Bruderschaft ; Geschichte ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Usuman dan Fodio [Leben und Werk] ; Mohammed Abdulle Hassan [Leben und Werk]
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Usman dan Fodio and the Fulani Jihad in Northern Nigeria -- Oppostion to French colonialism in Algeria: 'Abd as-Qadir, his predecessors and rivals -- Al-Hajj 'Umar Tal and his Jihad in Guinea, Senegal, and Mali -- The Sanusi brotherhood in Libya and the Sahara -- Ma' as-'Aynayn al-Qulqami, Mauritanian mystic and politician -- The Qadiri and Shadili brotherhoods in East Africa, 1880-1910 -- Sayyid Muhammad 'Abdallah Hasan of Somalia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 238-246
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