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Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions (Paperback)
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In Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent
historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the
Atlantic world have not given Africa its due consideration as part
of either the Atlantic world or the age of revolutions. The book
examines the jihad movement in the context of the age of
revolutions-commonly associated with the American and French
revolutions and the erosion of European imperialist powers-and
shows how West Africa, too, experienced a period of profound
political change in the late eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth
century. Paul Lovejoy argues that West Africa was a vital actor in
the Atlantic world, and has wrongly been excluded from analyses of
the period. Among its chief contributions, the book
reconceptualizes slavery. Lovejoy shows that during the decades in
question, slavery not only expanded extensively in the southern
United States, Cuba, and Brazil, but also in the jihad states of
West Africa. In particular, this expansion occurred in the Muslim
states of the Sokoto Caliphate, Fuuta Jalon, and Fuuta Toro. At the
same time, he offers new information on the role antislavery
activity in West Africa played in the Atlantic slave trade and the
African diaspora. Finally, Jihad and Slavery in West Africa during
the Age of Revolutions provides unprecedented context for the
political and cultural role of Islam in Africa-and of the concept
of jihad in particular-from the eighteenth century into the
present. Understanding that there is a long tradition of jihad in
West Africa, Lovejoy argues, helps to correct the current
distortion in understanding the contemporary jihad movement in the
Middle East, Afganistan, Pakistan, and Africa.
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