Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith : Ahmad Lobbo, the Tarikh al-fattash and the Making of an Islamic State in West Africa (Hardcover)

Introduction; Part I. A Nineteenth Century Chronicle in Support of the Caliphate of Hamdall?hi: N?? B. Al-??hir's T?r?kh al-fatt?sh: 1. A century of scholarship; 2. The T?r?kh al-fatt?sh: a nineteenth-century chronicle; Part II. A Contested Space of Compating Claims: the Middle Niger, 1810s?1840s; 3. The emergence of clerical rule in the Middle Niger; 4. A?mad Lobbo, Timbuktu, and the Kunta; 5. Fluctuating diplomacy: ?amdall?hi and Sokoto; Part III. The Circulation and Reception of the T?r?kh al-fatt?sh, 1840s?2010s: 6. The T?r?kh al-fatt?sh at work; Conclusion.