Ransoming prisoners in precolonial Muslim western Africa /

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"This study, the first to cover ransoming in African regions south of the Sahara, ranges over a broad temporal and geographical area-from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries and including present-day Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Morocco. It focuses particularly on the nineteenth-century jiha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lofkrantz, Jennifer, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2023.
Colección:Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora.
Temas:
Ransom > Africa, West > History.
Ransom > Religious aspects > Islam.
Slavery and Islam > Africa, West.
Muslims > Africa, West > Intellectual life.
Islamic law > Africa, West.
Rançon > Afrique occidentale > Histoire.
Esclavage > Afrique occidentale > Aspect religieux > Islam.
Musulmans > Afrique occidentale > Vie intellectuelle.
Droit islamique > Afrique occidentale.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African Studies
Intellectual life
Islamic law
Muslims > Intellectual life
Ransom
Slavery and Islam
Africa, West > Intellectual life.
Afrique occidentale > Vie intellectuelle.
West Africa
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One-Islamic Discourse on Slavery and Ransoming before 1800
  • Chapter Two-The Policy and Practice of Ransoming in the Maghrib
  • Chapter Three-Jihad, the Sokoto Caliphate, and Ransoming
  • Chapter Four-The Jihad of 'Umar Taal and its Ransoming Non-Policies
  • Chapter Five-The Negotiation and Practice of Ransoming Captives
  • Conclusion.

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