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Mervyn Hiskett
The Sword of Truth.
The life and times of the Shehu Usuman Dan Fodio

New York. Oxford University Press. 1973. 192 p.

Contents

• Abbreviations
• Arabic sources
• List of hausa poems

1. Introduction
2. • The Early History of Hausaland
   • The Establishment of Islam in Hausaland
   • The Beginnings of the Islamic Reform Movement
   • The Fulani Caliphate of Sokoto
   • The British Conquest of Hausaland

2. The years of preparation
3. • The Shehu's Early Life and Domestic Environment
   • The Community at Worship
   • The Shehu as a Young Man in Degel
   • Education and Intellectual Life among the Muslim Fulani:
   • The Schools
   • The Curriculum
   • The Teachers

3. Preacher and Missionary
4. • The Early Period of ltinerant Missionary Work
   • Increasing Involvement in the Politics of the Gobir Court
   • The Nature and Purpose of His Preaching
   • The Preacher

4. The Sword of Truth
5. • Sufism in the Western Sudan
   • The Sufi Allegiance of the Muslim Fulani
   • The Sufi Revival of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
   • The Shehu's Personal Mystical Experiences

5. Prelude to War
6. • The Gimbana Affair
   • The Act of Allegiance at Gudu
   • Popular Support for the Shehu
   • The Undercurrent of Islam
   • Slavery
   • The Conflict of Interest between Nomads and Peasants

6. Holy War in the Way of God
7. • The Terrain of the Campaigns
   • The Two Armies
   • The Battle of Tabkin Kwotto to the Battle of Alwassa
   • November 1805
   • December 1805 to the Fall of Alkalawa, September 1808
   • 1809-12: The Founding of the Fulani Empire
   • Reasons for the Muslims' Success
   • The Shehu's Hijra and His Personal Contribution to
   • the Holy War

7. The Aftermath
8. • The Failure of Ideals
   • The Muslim Rebels
   • The Bornu Correspondence
   • The Sifawa Period
   • The Division of Authority and the Succession
   • 'Abdullah b. Muhammad and Muhammad Bello

8. Theologian and Dogmatist
9. • His Intellectual Assumptions
   • Some Important Theological Works
   • The Debt to al-Maghili
   • The Doctrine of the Renewer of the Faith
   • The Status of Sinners and the Nature of Unbelief
   • Religious Ignorance, Charlatanism, and Venality
   • The Relation of the Reform Movement to Wahhabism

9. Founder of the State and Lawgiver
10. • The Model
    • The Reformers' Constitutional Theory and Practice
    • The Moral Basis of the Constitution

10. X Epilogue
11. • "Canonization" and the Miracle Tradition
    • The Extent of the Reformers' Achievement
    • The Intellectual Consequences of the Reform Movement
    • 'The Conflict Between Islamic Teaching and African
    • Ideas of Life and Death
    • The Continuing Role of Sufism
    • The Legacy of Islamic Conservatism
    • Islam in the Recent History of Nigeria

• A Selected Bibliography
• • A. Islam, General Background
  • B. West Africa

• Appendix I: A short bibliographical essay
• Appendix II: Explanatory notes to maps
• Index

1. Hausaland c. 1750, following p. 4
2. Main Battles and Offenses of the Jihad 1804-5, following p. 94
3. Main Battles and Offenses of the Jihad 1806-12, following p. 94
4. The Fulani Empires of Gwandu and Sokoto c. 1812, following p. 100
5. Northern Nigeria: States and Provinces, following p. 154

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