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David Robinson. The Holy War of Umar Tal:
the Western Sudan in the mid-nineteenth century
Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1985. 420 pages

Contents

List of Maps
List of Tables
Abbreviations

Preface
Introduction

Part I: The Foundations

Chapter 1: The Evidence

1. Social Structure, Education, and History
2. Internal Evidence: The Process
3. Internal Evidence: The Results
4. Mixed Bodies of Evidence: Masina, Miracles, and Griots
5. External Evidence: The French Materials
6. External Evidence: The African Materials
7. Conclusion

Chapter 2: The Muslim Fulbhe

1. Futa Jalon
2. Futa Toro
3. Growing Up in Futa-Toro
4. Northern Nigeria
5. Masina
6. The Emergence of a Chosen People

Part II: The Narrative

Chapter 3: From Pilgrimage to Jihad

1. The Tijaniyya and the Pilgrimage
2. The Central and Western Sudan
3. The Early Residence in Futa Jalon
4. The Testing journey
5. Launching the Jihaad
6. The Transition to Jihaad

Chapter 4: The Jihaad and Eastern Senegambia, 1854-6

1. Senegambia and the French
2. The Fulbe States
3. The Mande-speaking Societies
4. The Call to Jihaad
5. The Umarian Offensive
6. Confiscation and Confrontation
7. The French Offensive

Chapter 5: the Jihaad in Karta, 1855-6

1. Karta Before the Jihaad
2. The Conquest of Karta
3. The Revolts of 1855 and 1856
4. The Effects of Revolt and Repression
5. Karta in the Late Nineteenth Century

Chapter 6: Confrontation in Eastern Senegambia, 1857-60

1. Medine
2. The Military and Ideological Offensive of The French
3. Convalescence and Resurgence
4. The Recruitment of 1858-9
5. Dénouement

Chapter 7: the Segu Campaign, 1859-61

1. Segu before the Jihad
2. The Preparation
3. The Defeat of the Segovian Army
4. Complications and Final Conquest
5. Consolidation and Revolt
6. Segu in the Late Nineteenth Century

Chapter 8: Masina: Conquest and Revolt, 1862-4

1. Masina between the Jihads
2. The Diplomatic Game
3. The Conquest
4. Revolt and Demise
5. Reconquest and Exhaustion

Part III: Interpretation

Chapter 9: Interpretation

1. Design
   1. The Conditions, Intentions, and Stages of the Jihad
   2. Europeans, Weapons and Casualties
2. Crusaders and the « West »
   1. The Tal and Dingiray
   2. The Talibés of Senegambia
3. Defenders and the « East »
   1. The Traditions
   2. Administration
   3. The Economy
   4. Relationships to the North
4. Frameworks of Understanding
   1. The Sokoto Model
   2. Resistance

Sources

1. Unpublished
   1. Arabic Documentation
   2. European Archival Documentation
   3. Oral Tradition
2. Published
   1. Official and Semi-Official French Publications
   2. Publications of Documents
   3. Sources Published in the Nineteenth Century
   4. Sources Published in the Twentieth Century

Index