The Arabic Literature of Nigeria to 1804

The purpose of this essay is to provide a convenient introduction to the Arabic literature composed in Nigeria and the immediately adjoining areas in the period before the commencement of the Fulani jihād. That far-reaching movement of political and religious reform, initiated in 1804 under the leadership of Shehu Usuman dan Fodio (in Arabic texts ' b. Fūdī, often surnamed Nur al-zamdn and Mujaddid al-isldm) clearly marks off the division between the early and the modern period in the Arabic literature of this area. As is well known, the standard bibliographical work of reference, Brockelmann's encyclopaedic Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, however full its coverage of the writing of the Arabic-speaking world at large, represents only scantily the West African writers of Arabic

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• Arabismos activos en los teónimos lucumíes (1517-1870) cubanos Ob[b]atala y Oxala/ Osha[n]la/Ochala

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• Daura and gender in the creation of a Hausa national epic

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• Idealism and Pragmatism

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• Arabic Loan Words in Hausa

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• A contribution to the biography of Shaikh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd-al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad (ʿUmar-aʿMar) al-Maghīlī, al-Tilimsānī

  Open Access•ʿAbd-al-ʿazīz ʿAbd-allah Batrān•The Journal of African History•1973

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• Africa in world history, 1400 to 1800

  Open Access•Ray A Kea•Cambridge World History•2015

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• The western Maghrib and Sudan

  Open Access•Nehemia Levtzion•The Cambridge History of Africa•1977

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• The East African interior

  Open Access•Roland Oliver•The Cambridge History of Africa•1977

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• The nineteenth-century jihads in West Africa

  Open Access•Mervyn Hiskett•Cambridge History of Africa•1977

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• Eastern Africa

  Open Access•Edward A Alpers, Edward Alpers et al.•Cambridge History of Africa•1975

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• The forest and the savanna of Central Africa

  Open Access•David Birmingham•Cambridge History of Africa•1977

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• West Africa in the anti-slave trade era

  Open Access•J F Ade Ajayi, B Olatunji Oloruntimehin•Cambridge History of Africa•1977

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• The central Sahara and Sudan

  Open Access•Humphrey J Fisher•Cambridge History of Africa•1975

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• Tradition and change in Madagascar, 1790–1870

  Open Access•Hubert Deschamps, Yvonne Brettt•Cambridge History of Africa•1977

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• Africa in Europe and the Americas

  Open Access•Walter Rodney•Cambridge History of Africa•1975

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• East Africa

  Open Access•A C Unomah, J B Webster et al.•Cambridge History of Africa•1977

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• Colonial South Africa and its frontiers

  Open Access•J D Omer-Cooper, J D Omer‐cooper•Cambridge History of Africa•1977

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• Africans overseas, 1790–1870

  Open Access•John Flint, John E Flint et al.•Cambridge History of Africa•1977

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• Freed slave colonies in West Africa

  Open Access•Christopher Fyfe•Cambridge History of Africa•1977

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• The East Coast, Madagascar and the Indian Ocean

  Open Access•H Neville Chittick•The Cambridge History of Africa•1977

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• The Guinea coast

  Open Access•Walter Rodney•Cambridge History of Africa•1975

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• Upper and Lower Guinea

  Open Access•J D Fage•The Cambridge History of Africa•1977

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• Central Africa from Cameroun to the Zambezi

  Open Access•David Birmingham•The Cambridge History of Africa•1977

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• Central Africa from Cameroun to the Zambezi

  Open Access•David Birmingham•Cambridge History of Africa•1975

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• The eastern Maghrib and the central Sudan

  Open Access•Humphrey J Fisher•The Cambridge History of Africa•1977

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• Fictions of Justice

  Open Access•Kamari M Clarke•Fictions of Justice•2009

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• Modern Extremist Groups and the Division of the World

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• Book History in the African World

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• New networks and new knowledge

  Open Access•R M Feener•New Cambridge History of Islam•2000

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• Culture and politics in Iran since the 1979 revolution

  Open Access•Nikki R Keddie•New Cambridge History of Islam•2000

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• The New Cambridge History of Islam

  Open Access•Michael Cook, Robert W Hefner•New Cambridge History of Islam•2000

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• Unbelief in the Western Sudan

  B G Martin•Middle Eastern Studies•1967

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• A Note on the Ethnic Interpretation of the Fulani Jihād

  Open Access•Marilyn Robinson Waldman, Marilyn Waldman•Africa•1966

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• Choix linguistique et modernité islamique au Cameroun

  Open Access•Hamadou Adama•Revue des mondes musulmans et de…•2008

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• Uthmân dan Fodio et la question du pouvoir en pays haoussa

  Open Access•Thomas Fillitz•Revue des mondes musulmans et de…•2000

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• Making Book History in Timbuktu

  Open Access•Shamil Jeppie•Book in Africa•2015

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• The Cambridge History of Africa

  Open Access•John D Fage, Roland Oliver et al.•Cambridge History of Africa•1977

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• The Cambridge History of Africa

  Open Access•John D Fage, Roland Anthony Oliver et al.•The Cambridge history of Africa•1977

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• Writing a Colonial Legal History of Northern Nigeria

  Open Access•Femi Owolade•History in Africa•2023

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• The 'Song of Bagauda

  Open Access•Mervyn Hiskett•Bulletin of the School of…•1965

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• An Islamic Tradition of Reform in the westei Sudan from the sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

  Open Access•David Cressy•Bulletin of the School of…•1962

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• The 'Song of Bagauda

  Open Access•Mervyn Hiskett•Bulletin of the School of…•1964

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• The Fulani Jihād

  Open Access•Marilyn Robinson Waldman, Marilyn Waldman•The Journal of African History•1965

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• Problems of African Chronology

  Open Access•D H Jones•The Journal of African History•1970

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• The growth of Islam in pre‐colonial Igbomina

  Adesina Yusuf Raji•Institute of Muslim Minority…•1999

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• Feminist or Simply Feminine

  Chukwuma Azuonye•Meridians•2006

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• A Timbuktu bibliophile between the Mediterranean and the Sahel

  Shamil Jeppie•The Journal of North African…•2015

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• A New Source For the Biography of Aḥmad Bābā Al-Tinbuktī (1556-1627)

  Open Access•John O Hunwick•Bulletin of the School of…•1964

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• Field Notes on the Arabic Literature of the Western Sudan

  Open Access•W E N Kensdale•Journal of the Royal Asiatic…•1956

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• Early Smoking Pipes

  Thurstan Shaw•The Journal of the Royal…•1960

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• History of Katsina

  H R Palmer•African Affairs•1927

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• The Rise of the Sokoto Fulani. Being a Paraphrase and in some parts a Translation of the Infaku'l maisuri of Sultan Mohammed Bello

  Abebe Woldesenbet Aseffa•African Affairs•1930

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• The Ancient So People of Bornu

  F W H Migeod•African Affairs•1923

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