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Summary. The various Muslim theocratic states that emerged in West Africa over the 18th and 19th centuries (including Sokoto, Masina, and, later, the Umarian state) came to power in a series of conflicts, or jihads, against political systems in which slavery preexisted as the basic system of labor extraction and population control and in which ...
Jun 15, 2023 · This chapter examines the issues of enslavement, slavery, and pathways to freedom in the nineteenth-century West African states established through revolutionary jihad in what is now mostly contemporary Mali and northern Nigeria. The jihads were primarily...
- Lofkrantz.J@gust.edu.kw
Islam has a large presence in North Africa, West Africa, the horn of Africa, the Southeast and among the minority but significant immigrant population in South Africa. The first West Africans to be converted were the inhabitants of the Sahara, the Berbers, and it is generally agreed that by the second half of the tenth century, the Sahara had ...
Sep 27, 2020 · Abstract. This chapter discusses the processes of West African Islamization as a combination of factors including the reaction of West Africans to Islam as the faith continues to provide a multitude of opportunities. Spanning from the seventh century, Islam remains essential to trading opportunities, cultural transmissions, education, and ...
- Bala Saho
- bsaho1@ou.edu
- 2020
Learning Objectives. At the end of this section, you will be able to: Locate the major West African empires on a map. Discuss the roles of Islam and Europe in the slave trade. It is difficult to generalize about West Africa, which was linked to the rise and diffusion of Islam.
- P. Scott Corbett, Volker Janssen, John M. Lund, Todd Pfannestiel, Sylvie Waskiewicz, Paul Vickery
- 2014
The spread of Islam in West Africa was not due to one factor, but there were various factors, multiple roles, and diverse groups that helped, after the Grace of Allaah, in spreading Islam.
Sep 27, 2020 · Abstract. The chapter discusses the extraordinarily long history of West Africa’s religious traditions. It argues that Islam in West African has been profoundly transformed by ancient Egypto-African belief systems that are far older than any of the Abrahamic traditions, and that the faith in Africa has been ʿAjamized (or Africanized).
