Gomez, Michael A., 1955-
African dominion : a new history of empire in early and medieval West Africa / Michael A. Gomez. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2017. - vi, 505 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Early Sahel and Savannah -- Prologue -- The Middle Niger in pre-antiquity and global context -- Early Gao -- The kingdoms of Ghana: Reform along the Senegal River -- Slavery and race imagined in Bilad as-Sudan -- Part II. Imperial Mali -- The meanings of Sunjata and the dawn of imperial Mali -- Mansa Musa and global Mali -- Intrigue, Islam, and Ibn Baṭṭuṭa -- Part III. Imperial Songhay -- Sunni 'Ali and the reinvention of Songhay -- The Sunni and the scholars: a tale of revenge -- Renaissance: the age of Askia al-Ḥajj Muḥammad -- Of clerics and concubines -- Part IV. Le dernier de l'empire -- Of fitnas and fratricide: The nadir of imperial Songhay -- Surfeit and stability: The era of Askia Dawud -- The rending asunder: Dominion's end -- Epilogue: A thousand years.
9780691177427 (hbk ) $45.00
Islam--History.--Africa, West
Slavery--History.--Africa, West
Africa, West--History--To 1884.
966.02 / G6332a
African dominion : a new history of empire in early and medieval West Africa / Michael A. Gomez. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2017. - vi, 505 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Early Sahel and Savannah -- Prologue -- The Middle Niger in pre-antiquity and global context -- Early Gao -- The kingdoms of Ghana: Reform along the Senegal River -- Slavery and race imagined in Bilad as-Sudan -- Part II. Imperial Mali -- The meanings of Sunjata and the dawn of imperial Mali -- Mansa Musa and global Mali -- Intrigue, Islam, and Ibn Baṭṭuṭa -- Part III. Imperial Songhay -- Sunni 'Ali and the reinvention of Songhay -- The Sunni and the scholars: a tale of revenge -- Renaissance: the age of Askia al-Ḥajj Muḥammad -- Of clerics and concubines -- Part IV. Le dernier de l'empire -- Of fitnas and fratricide: The nadir of imperial Songhay -- Surfeit and stability: The era of Askia Dawud -- The rending asunder: Dominion's end -- Epilogue: A thousand years.
9780691177427 (hbk ) $45.00
Islam--History.--Africa, West
Slavery--History.--Africa, West
Africa, West--History--To 1884.
966.02 / G6332a