Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa

Released on by Jennifer Lofkrantz
preview-18

  • Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa Book Detail

  • Author : Jennifer Lofkrantz
  • Release Date : 2023
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Genre : Africa, West
  • Pages : 229
  • ISBN 13 : 1648250645
  • File Size : 28,28 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa by Jennifer Lofkrantz PDF Summary

Book Description: Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads. In this pioneering study--the first to cover ransoming, or the release of a prisoner prior to enslavement for cash or kind, in African regions south of the Sahara--Jennifer Lofkrantz focuses on a broad temporal and geographical area raning from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries and including present-day Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Morocco. The work concentrates particularly on the nineteenth-century jihad era and on the Sokoto Caliphate and the Umarian States. The overall period was a time of intense intellectual debate over the questions of who was and who was not a Muslim, how Islamic law could and should be implemented, what rights and protections recognized freeborn Muslims should have, and what role governments should play in ensuring those rights especially during a time when slavery was legal. Ransoming discourses and procedures expose Muslim West African answers to these questions as well as providing a lens on broader issues and ideas on slavery, freedom, and religious and ethnic identity. Based on research conducted mostly in Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and France and on Arabic-, French-, and English-language archival sources, treatises, personal correspondence, oral sources and testimony, biographical data, travel reports, and early colonial documents, this study approaches the question of ransoming of captives through an examination, first, of intellectual debates among pre-nineteenth-century West African scholars on issues of ransoming; second, of nineteenth-century policies based on understandings of those intellectual debates in the context of the jihads; and, finally, of West African practices of ransoming in the nineteenth century.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Global Ethiopian Diaspora

The Global Ethiopian Diaspora

File Size : 45,45 MB
Total View : 4889 Views
DOWNLOAD

A comprehensive historical, geographic, and thematic analysis of the multidimensional and dynamic migration experience of Ethiopians within and beyond Africa. E

The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

File Size : 83,83 MB
Total View : 4854 Views
DOWNLOAD

The history of Ghana attracts popular interest out of proportion to its small size and marginal importance to the global economy. Ghana is the land of Kwame Nkr