John O Hunwick
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John O Hunwick |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | O Hunwick |
| SIGNATURE | HUNWICK J O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles
A condensation and updating of his African Muslims in Antebellum America: A Sourcebook (1984), noted scholar of antebellum black writing and history Dr. Allan D. Austin explores, via portraits, documents, maps, and texts, the lives of 50 sub-Saharan non-peasant Muslim Africans caught in the slave trade between 1730 and 1860. Also includes five maps
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
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
Al-Sa'di's Ta'rikh Al-Sudan is a major source for the history of Timbuktu and the Songhay empire. This first English translation includes abundant annotation, and is followed by English translations of several other contemporary texts. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details
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
Arabic Literature of Africa, Vol. 2, the Writings of Central Sudanic Africa
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…
Religion and National Integration in Africa: Islam, Christianity and Politics in the Sudan and Nigeria
Gao and the Almoravids Revisited: Ethnicity, Political Change and the Limits of Interpretation
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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
Religion and National Integration in Africa, Islam Christianity, and Politics in the Sudan and Nigeria
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…
Black slaves in the Mediterranean world: Introduction to a neglected aspect of the African Diaspora
(1992). Black slaves in the Mediterranean world: Introduction to a neglected aspect of the African Diaspora. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 5-38
Acta Aethiopica: Correspondence and Treaties, 1800-1854
Notes on Some Collections of Arabic Manuscripts in Nigeria
During the summer of 1987 I was able to visit manuscript collections in Ibadan, Kaduna, Zaria, Kano, and Sokoto to check and expand data for my projected contribution to the multi–volume Arabic Literature in Africa , edited by myself and R. S. O'Fahey. These notes are based on my experiences with the various collections at that time
Shari'a in Songhay: The Replies of Al-Maghili to the Questions of Askia Al-Hajj Muhammad
Sharia in Songhay: The Replies of Al-Maghili to the Questions of Askia al-Hajj Muhammad
Al-Mahili and the Jews of Tuwat: The Demise of a Community
(1) H.Z. (J.W.) Hirschberg, A History of the Jews in North Africa. Vol. I, From Antiquity to the Sixteenth Century (Leiden, 1974), pp. 401-402. A French translation, which differs slightly from the above is given in Simonne Bakchine-Dumont, Les Juifs du Touat (XIVe et XVe sicles), M6moire de Maitrise d'Histoire, Universit6 de Paris, Facultd des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, 1975-1976, pp. 160-161. David Corcos gives the text only of these and oth…
Shari'a in Songhay: The Replies of al-Maghili to the Questions of Askia al-Hajj Muhammad
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 …
The mid-fourteenth century capital of Mali
For over a century scholars have been attempting to locate the area and, if possible, the actual site of the capital of the Mali empire in its period of greatness. Since the 1920S attention has been focused on an area near the Sankararni river, a tributary entering the Niger from the south, upstream from Bamako. Over recent years a Polish-Guinean archaeological expedition has been digging a site there, but with inconclusive results so far. A clos…
Black slaves in the Mediterranean world: Introduction to a neglected aspect of the African Diaspora
(1992). Black slaves in the Mediterranean world: Introduction to a neglected aspect of the African Diaspora. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 5-38
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…
Al-Mahili and the Jews of Tuwat: The Demise of a Community
(1) H.Z. (J.W.) Hirschberg, A History of the Jews in North Africa. Vol. I, From Antiquity to the Sixteenth Century (Leiden, 1974), pp. 401-402. A French translation, which differs slightly from the above is given in Simonne Bakchine-Dumont, Les Juifs du Touat (XIVe et XVe sicles), M6moire de Maitrise d'Histoire, Universit6 de Paris, Facultd des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, 1975-1976, pp. 160-161. David Corcos gives the text only of these and oth…
Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sadi's Tarikh al-sudan down to 1613 and Other Contemporary Documents
Religion and National Integration in Africa: Islam, Christianity, and Politics in the Sudan and Nigeria
A New Source For the Biography of Aḥmad Bābā Al-Tinbuktī (1556-1627)
The name of Aḥmad Bābā first became known to European scholarship through the articles of the French scholar M. A. Cherbonneau in the years 1854 and 1855. In 1857, when Heinrich Barth published hisTravels and discoveries, Aḥmad Bābā achieved a spurious fame which lasted for over 40 years as the supposed author of theTa'rīkh al-Sūdān. It was not until 1897 that the learned German's attribution was scornfully refuted by the French journalist Felix …
A New Source For the Biography of Aḥmad Bābā Al-Tinbuktī (1556-1627)
The name of Aḥmad Bābā first became known to European scholarship through the articles of the French scholar M. A. Cherbonneau in the years 1854 and 1855. In 1857, when Heinrich Barth published hisTravels and discoveries, Aḥmad Bābā achieved a spurious fame which lasted for over 40 years as the supposed author of theTa'rīkh al-Sūdān. It was not until 1897 that the learned German's attribution was scornfully refuted by the French journalist Felix …
"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…
The mid-fourteenth century capital of Mali
For over a century scholars have been attempting to locate the area and, if possible, the actual site of the capital of the Mali empire in its period of greatness. Since the 1920S attention has been focused on an area near the Sankararni river, a tributary entering the Niger from the south, upstream from Bamako. Over recent years a Polish-Guinean archaeological expedition has been digging a site there, but with inconclusive results so far. A clos…
Essai sur la contribution du Sénégal à la littérature d'expression arabe. Par A. Samb. Dakar: Mém. Ifan no. 87, 1972. Pp. 531, 8 plates. Fr. 45
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Al-Mahili and the Jews of Tuwat: The Demise of a Community
(1) H.Z. (J.W.) Hirschberg, A History of the Jews in North Africa. Vol. I, From Antiquity to the Sixteenth Century (Leiden, 1974), pp. 401-402. A French translation, which differs slightly from the above is given in Simonne Bakchine-Dumont, Les Juifs du Touat (XIVe et XVe sicles), M6moire de Maitrise d'Histoire, Universit6 de Paris, Facultd des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, 1975-1976, pp. 160-161. David Corcos gives the text only of these and oth…
Shari'a in Songhay: The Replies of al-Maghili to the Questions of Askia al-Hajj Muhammad
Sharia in Songhay: The Replies of Al-Maghili to the Questions of Askia al-Hajj Muhammad
Shari'a in Songhay: The Replies of Al-Maghili to the Questions of Askia Al-Hajj Muhammad
Acta Aethiopica: Correspondence and Treaties, 1800-1854
Notes on Some Collections of Arabic Manuscripts in Nigeria
During the summer of 1987 I was able to visit manuscript collections in Ibadan, Kaduna, Zaria, Kano, and Sokoto to check and expand data for my projected contribution to the multi–volume Arabic Literature in Africa , edited by myself and R. S. O'Fahey. These notes are based on my experiences with the various collections at that time
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…
Black slaves in the Mediterranean world: Introduction to a neglected aspect of the African Diaspora
(1992). Black slaves in the Mediterranean world: Introduction to a neglected aspect of the African Diaspora. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 5-38
Religion and National Integration in Africa: Islam, Christianity, and Politics in the Sudan and Nigeria
Religion and National Integration in Africa, Islam Christianity, and Politics in the Sudan and Nigeria
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…
Religion and National Integration in Africa: Islam, Christianity and Politics in the Sudan and Nigeria
Arabic Literature of Africa, Vol. 2, the Writings of Central Sudanic Africa
Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sa'dī's Ta'rīkh Al-Sūdān Down to 1613 and Other Contemporary Documents
Al-Sa'di's Ta'rikh Al-Sudan is a major source for the history of Timbuktu and the Songhay empire. This first English translation includes abundant annotation, and is followed by English translations of several other contemporary texts. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details
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 …
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