ISBN:
978-1-108-47950-9
,
978-1-108-78982-0 /Pbk.
Language:
English
Pages:
xix, 262 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
African Studies (Cambridge) 148
Keywords:
Niger (Fluß) Westafrika
;
Islam und Politik
;
Islam
;
Politik und Gesellschaft
;
Geschichte, politische
;
Quelle, arabische
;
Historiographie
;
Shékou Amadou [Leben und Werk]
;
Lobbo, Ahmad 〉 Shékou Amadou
;
Ahmad Lobbo 〉 Shékou Amadou
;
Nuh ibn al-Tahir [Leben und Werk]
Abstract:
The Tarikh al-fattash 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 Making extensive use of previously unpublished Arabic sources, Nobili demonstrates that the Tarikh al-fattash was in fact written in the nineteenth century by a Fulani scholar, Nuh b. al-Tahir, who modified pre-existing historiographical material as a political project in legitimation of the West African Islamic state known as the Caliphate of Hamdallahi and its founding leader Ahmad 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. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
Figures, Maps, Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Orthography and Other Conventions -- Introduction -- Part I - A Nineteenth-Century Chronicle in Support of the Caliphate of Hamdallahi: Nuh b. al-Tahir`s Tarikh al-fattash -- 1 - A Century of Scholarship -- 2 - The Tarikh al-fattash: A Nineteenth-Century Chronicle -- Part II - A Contested Space of Competing Claims: The Middle Niger 1810s 1840s -- 3 - The Emergence of Clerical Rule in the Middle Niger -- 4 - Ahmad Lobbo, Timbuktu, and the Kunta -- 5 - Fluctuating Diplomacy: Hamdallahi and Sokoto -- Part III - The Circulation and Reception of the Tarikh al-fattash, 1840s-2010s -- 6 - The Tarikh al-fattash at Work -- Conclusion -- Index
