Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad : The Precolonial State of Bundu
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
African Studies
ISBN-10
052152847X
ISBN-13
9780521528474
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 4th, 2002
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
450 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.80 x 1.70 cms
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Founded during the jihads which swept the savannah in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Bundu, under the rule of Malik Sy, developed a more pragmatic policy then its neighbours. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, both oral and documentary, Arabic, English and French, this book provides the first full acount of Bundu's history.
Bundu was an anomaly among the precolonial Muslim states of West Africa. Founded during the jihads which swept the savannah in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it developed a pragmatic policy, unique in the midst of fundamentalist, theocratic Muslim states. Located in the Upper Senegal and with access to the Upper Gambia, Bundu played a critical role in regional commerce and production and reacted quickly to the stimulus of European trade. Drawing upon a wide range of sources both oral and documentary, Arabic, English and French, Dr Gomez provides the first full account of Bundu's history. He analyses the foundation and growth of an Islamic state at a crossroads between the Saharan and trans-Atlantic trade, paying particular attention to the relationship between Islamic thought and court policy, and to the state's response to militant Islam in the early nineteenth century.
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