Sultan, caliph and the renewer of the faith : Ahmad Lobbo, the Tarikh al-fattash and the making of an Islamic state in West Africa / Mauro Nobili

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020

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Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe- Nobili, Mauro *1981-*: Sultan, caliph and the renewer of the faith. - Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2020. - xix, 262 Seiten

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DOI: 10.1017/9781108804295

*Hamadou Sékou *1775-1845* / Nūḥ ibn al-Ṭāhir *-1857* / Tārīkh al-fattāsh / Westafrika / Islamisierung

*Shehu Ahmadu Lobbo -- 1775 or 1776-1844 or 1845 ; Nūḥ ibn al-Ṭāhir -- -1857 or 1858 ; Tārīkh al-fattāsh ; Fula (African people) -- Kings and rulers -- Historiography ; Islam and state -- History -- 19th century -- Sudan (Region) ; Macina -- History -- 19th century ; Hamdallahi (Mali) -- History ; Inland Niger Delta (Mali) -- History -- 19th century ; Sudan (Region) -- History -- 19th century ; Macina -- Historiography ; Sudan (Region) -- Historiography

*Shehu Ahmadu Lobbo ; 1775 or 1776-1844 or 1845 ; Nūḥ ibn al-Ṭāhir ; -1857 or 1858 ; Tārīkh al-fattāsh ; Fula (African people) ; Kings and rulers ; Historiography ; Islam and state ; Sudan (Region) ; History ; 19th century ; Macina ; History ; 19th century ; Hamdallahi (Mali) ; History ; Inland Niger Delta (Mali) ; History ; 19th century ; Sudan (Region) ; History ; 19th century ; Macina ; Historiography ; Sudan (Region) ; Historiography

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: DT551.65

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 966.201 ; 966.201

The Tārīkh al-fattāsh 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 Making extensive use of previously unpublished Arabic sources, Nobili demonstrates that the Tārīkh al-fattāsh was in fact written in the nineteenth century by a Fulani scholar, Nūḥ b. al-Ṭāhir, who modified pre-existing historiographical material as a political project in legitimation of the West African Islamic state known as the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi and its founding leader Aḥmad 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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