African dominion : a new history of empire in early and medieval West Africa / Michael A. Gomez.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: English Publication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2017Description: vi, 505 pages ; 24 cmISBN: 9780691177427 (hbk )Subject(s): Islam -- Africa, West -- History | Slavery -- Africa, West -- History | Africa, West -- History -- To 1884DDC classification: 966.02Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Textual Documents | Institute of Development Studies Kolkata | 966.02 G6332a (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 8061 |
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.
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