John Hunwick
Biographic Data
| ID | 343843 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Hunwick |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Hunwick |
| SIGNATURE | HUNWICK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Editor’s Preface
This study of how Muslim thinkers in Northern Nigeria responded to British activities under their colonial rule in the first half of the twentieth century has been in creation over the past fifteen years.In 1989 Muhammad S. Umar began his Ph.D. program at the
The Timbuktu Manuscript Tradition
The Timbuktu Manuscript Tradition
Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sadi's Tarikh al-sudan down to 1613 and Other Contemporary Documents
Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sa‘dī's Ta’rīkh Al-sūdān down to 1613 and other Contemporary Documents
The principal text translated in this volume is the Ta’rīkh Al-sūdān of the seventeenth-century Timbuktu scholar ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Sa‘dī. Thirty chapters are included, dealing with the history of Timbuktu and Jenne, their scholars, and the political history of the Songhay empire from the reign of Sunni ‘Alī (1464-1492) through Moroccan conquest of Songhay in 1591 and down to the year 1613 when the Pashalik of Timbuktu became an autonomous ruling …
Timbuctu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sa'di's Ta'rikh Al-Sudan down to 1613 and Other Contemporary Documents
The Arabic Qasida in West Africa: Forms, Themes and Contexts
Secular Power and Religious Authority in Muslim Society: The Case of Songhay
The relationship between political power and religious authority has been a delicate one in Muslim societies. On the one hand, governments may attempt to silence religious authorities; on the other, they may themselves succumb to revolutions in the name of religion. More often governments have attempted to co-opt religious authorities as allies in exercising control or have worked directly in a power-sharing arrangement with them. In Songhay, as …
Sub-Saharan Africa and the Wider World of Islam: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Today we come face to face with perhaps the greatest evil that stalks the modern world-that of nationalism ... The path of the Ummah and that of the Islamic movement is blocked by nation-states. These nation-states are like huge boulders blown across our path by the ill-wind of recent history. All nation-states that today occupy, enslave and exploit the lands, peoples and resources of the Ummah must of necessity be dismantled ..... It is quite cl…
Gao and the Almoravids Revisited: Ethnicity, Political Change and the Limits of Interpretation
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Historical Whodunit: The So-Called “Kano Chronicle” and its Place in the Historiography of Kano
Murray Last obliquely suggests that [the “Kano Chronicle”] is best regarded as a rather free compilation of local legends and traditions drafted in the mid-seventeenth century by a humorous Muslim rationalist who almost seems to have studied under Levi-Strauss. The danger lies in being carried away by one's own ingenuity. The question of the authorship and date(s) of writing of the so-called “Kano Chronicle” (KC) and hence how historians should e…
Religion and National Integration in Africa, Islam Christianity, and Politics in the Sudan and Nigeria
Shaihu Umar
An African Case Study of Political Islam: Nigeria
Since the early nineteenth century, when Uthman b. Fudi established an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, there has been a close symbiosis between religion and political power. Since independence in 1960, the issue of regional or ethnic power sharing in Nigeria has shifted to a contest between Muslims and Christians, with the part-Muslim, part-Christian Yoruba of the southwest helping to hold the balance. Since the 1960s, Saudi Arabia has promote…
Acta Aethiopica: Correspondence and Treaties, 1800-1854
"I Wish to be Seen in our Land Called Āfrikā": ʿUmar B. Sayyid's Appeal to be Released from Slavery (1819)
While Muslims were forbidden to enslave Muslims, in Africa, in battles between Muslims and non-Muslims, sometimes the latter captured Muslims, and sold them to European/American ship crews, who were seeking slaves to take across to America and sell, since Americans could use Muslims as slaves. ʿUmar b. Sayyid (or, more likely, Saʿīd) was captured in Futa Toro in 1806/7, exported, and sold as a slave in South Carolina. Later he was bought by the b…
Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sa‘dī's Ta’rīkh Al-sūdān down to 1613 and other Contemporary Documents
The principal text translated in this volume is the Ta’rīkh Al-sūdān of the seventeenth-century Timbuktu scholar ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Sa‘dī. Thirty chapters are included, dealing with the history of Timbuktu and Jenne, their scholars, and the political history of the Songhay empire from the reign of Sunni ‘Alī (1464-1492) through Moroccan conquest of Songhay in 1591 and down to the year 1613 when the Pashalik of Timbuktu became an autonomous ruling …
Gao and the Almoravids Revisited: Ethnicity, Political Change and the Limits of Interpretation
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Secular Power and Religious Authority in Muslim Society: The Case of Songhay
The relationship between political power and religious authority has been a delicate one in Muslim societies. On the one hand, governments may attempt to silence religious authorities; on the other, they may themselves succumb to revolutions in the name of religion. More often governments have attempted to co-opt religious authorities as allies in exercising control or have worked directly in a power-sharing arrangement with them. In Songhay, as …
Sub-Saharan Africa and the Wider World of Islam: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Today we come face to face with perhaps the greatest evil that stalks the modern world-that of nationalism ... The path of the Ummah and that of the Islamic movement is blocked by nation-states. These nation-states are like huge boulders blown across our path by the ill-wind of recent history. All nation-states that today occupy, enslave and exploit the lands, peoples and resources of the Ummah must of necessity be dismantled ..... It is quite cl…
An African Case Study of Political Islam: Nigeria
Since the early nineteenth century, when Uthman b. Fudi established an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, there has been a close symbiosis between religion and political power. Since independence in 1960, the issue of regional or ethnic power sharing in Nigeria has shifted to a contest between Muslims and Christians, with the part-Muslim, part-Christian Yoruba of the southwest helping to hold the balance. Since the 1960s, Saudi Arabia has promote…
A Historical Whodunit: The So-Called “Kano Chronicle” and its Place in the Historiography of Kano
Murray Last obliquely suggests that [the “Kano Chronicle”] is best regarded as a rather free compilation of local legends and traditions drafted in the mid-seventeenth century by a humorous Muslim rationalist who almost seems to have studied under Levi-Strauss. The danger lies in being carried away by one's own ingenuity. The question of the authorship and date(s) of writing of the so-called “Kano Chronicle” (KC) and hence how historians should e…
Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sadi's Tarikh al-sudan down to 1613 and Other Contemporary Documents
"I Wish to be Seen in our Land Called Āfrikā": ʿUmar B. Sayyid's Appeal to be Released from Slavery (1819)
While Muslims were forbidden to enslave Muslims, in Africa, in battles between Muslims and non-Muslims, sometimes the latter captured Muslims, and sold them to European/American ship crews, who were seeking slaves to take across to America and sell, since Americans could use Muslims as slaves. ʿUmar b. Sayyid (or, more likely, Saʿīd) was captured in Futa Toro in 1806/7, exported, and sold as a slave in South Carolina. Later he was bought by the b…
Acta Aethiopica: Correspondence and Treaties, 1800-1854
An African Case Study of Political Islam: Nigeria
Since the early nineteenth century, when Uthman b. Fudi established an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, there has been a close symbiosis between religion and political power. Since independence in 1960, the issue of regional or ethnic power sharing in Nigeria has shifted to a contest between Muslims and Christians, with the part-Muslim, part-Christian Yoruba of the southwest helping to hold the balance. Since the 1960s, Saudi Arabia has promote…
Religion and National Integration in Africa, Islam Christianity, and Politics in the Sudan and Nigeria
Shaihu Umar
Gao and the Almoravids Revisited: Ethnicity, Political Change and the Limits of Interpretation
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Historical Whodunit: The So-Called “Kano Chronicle” and its Place in the Historiography of Kano
Murray Last obliquely suggests that [the “Kano Chronicle”] is best regarded as a rather free compilation of local legends and traditions drafted in the mid-seventeenth century by a humorous Muslim rationalist who almost seems to have studied under Levi-Strauss. The danger lies in being carried away by one's own ingenuity. The question of the authorship and date(s) of writing of the so-called “Kano Chronicle” (KC) and hence how historians should e…
The Arabic Qasida in West Africa: Forms, Themes and Contexts
Secular Power and Religious Authority in Muslim Society: The Case of Songhay
The relationship between political power and religious authority has been a delicate one in Muslim societies. On the one hand, governments may attempt to silence religious authorities; on the other, they may themselves succumb to revolutions in the name of religion. More often governments have attempted to co-opt religious authorities as allies in exercising control or have worked directly in a power-sharing arrangement with them. In Songhay, as …
Sub-Saharan Africa and the Wider World of Islam: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Today we come face to face with perhaps the greatest evil that stalks the modern world-that of nationalism ... The path of the Ummah and that of the Islamic movement is blocked by nation-states. These nation-states are like huge boulders blown across our path by the ill-wind of recent history. All nation-states that today occupy, enslave and exploit the lands, peoples and resources of the Ummah must of necessity be dismantled ..... It is quite cl…
Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sa‘dī's Ta’rīkh Al-sūdān down to 1613 and other Contemporary Documents
The principal text translated in this volume is the Ta’rīkh Al-sūdān of the seventeenth-century Timbuktu scholar ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Sa‘dī. Thirty chapters are included, dealing with the history of Timbuktu and Jenne, their scholars, and the political history of the Songhay empire from the reign of Sunni ‘Alī (1464-1492) through Moroccan conquest of Songhay in 1591 and down to the year 1613 when the Pashalik of Timbuktu became an autonomous ruling …
Timbuctu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sa'di's Ta'rikh Al-Sudan down to 1613 and Other Contemporary Documents
The Timbuktu Manuscript Tradition
The Timbuktu Manuscript Tradition
Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sadi's Tarikh al-sudan down to 1613 and Other Contemporary Documents
Editor’s Preface
This study of how Muslim thinkers in Northern Nigeria responded to British activities under their colonial rule in the first half of the twentieth century has been in creation over the past fifteen years.In 1989 Muhammad S. Umar began his Ph.D. program at the
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