One Woman's Jihad: Nana Asma'u, Scholar and Scribe

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"... a most welcome addition to the body of scholarship on the Sokoto Jihad and Caliphate." — Religious Studies Review

The fascinating life and times of Nana Asma'u (1793 - 1864), a West African woman who was a Muslim scholar and poet. As the daughter of the spiritual and political leader of the Sokoto community, Asma'u was a role model and teacher for other Muslim women as well as a scholar of Islam and a key advisor to her father as he waged a jihad to bring Islam to the population of what is now northwestern Nigeria.

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Overview

"... a most welcome addition to the body of scholarship on the Sokoto Jihad and Caliphate." — Religious Studies Review

The fascinating life and times of Nana Asma'u (1793 - 1864), a West African woman who was a Muslim scholar and poet. As the daughter of the spiritual and political leader of the Sokoto community, Asma'u was a role model and teacher for other Muslim women as well as a scholar of Islam and a key advisor to her father as he waged a jihad to bring Islam to the population of what is now northwestern Nigeria.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780253337078
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Publication date: 5/28/2000
  • Format: Library Binding
  • Pages: 224
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Beverly B. Mack is Assistant Professor of African and African-American Studies at the University of Kansas. She is co-editor (with Jean Boyd) of The Collected Works of Nana Asma'u, 1793-1864.

Jean Boyd is former Principal Research Fellow of the Sokoto History Bureau and Research Associate of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She is the author of The Caliph's Sister and Sultan Siddiq Abubakar III.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Note on Foreign Terms
1 Nana Asma'u and the Scholarly Islamic Tradition 1
2 Qadiriyya Sufism: The Qur'an and the Sunna 15
3 The Caliphate Community 30
4 The Poetic Tradition 46
5 Sokoto as Medina: Imitating the Life of the Prophet and Re-enacting History 63
6 Caliphate Women's Participation in the Community 76
Appendix Poems by Nana Asma'u
Elegy for Bello 94
Bello's Character 97
The Qur'an 100
Medicine of the Prophet 102
Be Sure of God's Truth 120
Sufi Women 127
So Verily... 132
In Praise of Ahmada 133
Yearning for the Prophet 137
The Journey 157
A Warning, II 166
Lamentation for Aisha, I 168
Lamentation for Aisha, II 170
Glossary of Terms 173
Notes 179
Works Cited 187
Index 191
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