Bruce S Hall
Biographic Data
| ID | 3965132 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce S Hall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce S |
| FAMILY NAME | Hall |
| SIGNATURE | HALL B S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Memory, Slavery and Muslim Citizenship in the post-Emancipation circum-Saharan World
Le Maroc et la Mauritanie comportent des sociétés post-émancipation où des luttes sont en cours sur les significations attribuées à la liberté et à la citoyenneté après l’esclavage. Comme dans d’autres régions limitrophes du Sahara, l’identité sociale et la situation économique des anciens esclaves et de leurs descendants sont sujets à contestation. Des idées raciales formulées dans ces contextes locaux sont courantes pour marquer les personnes a…
Rethinking the Place of Timbuktu in the Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa
Excavating Arabic sources for the history of slavery in Western Africa
An early twentieth-century correspondence between the French colonial administration and the trading com munity of St. Louis, expressing concern for their commercial activities, makes clear that the exchange of slaves for firearms was ongoing."Rapport do détégue du Gouverneur Général en Pays Maures (Xavier Coppolani) a Monsieur Ic Gouvemeur Génhral de I'A.O.F.sur Ia mission d'organisation du Tagant, ' lbn Abf Zayd, 224, 226, 228; Khahl devotes a …
Saharan Commerce and Islamic Law: The Question of Usury ( ribā ) in the Nawāzil Literature of Mali And Mauritania, 1700-1929
From the earliest days of the formation of Islamic law, commerce with sub-Saharan Africa—the land of the blacks—was deemed an undesirable undertaking from a moral point of view. For example, in his foundational Maliki textbook known simply as the Risāla, the tenth-century North African scholar
The Arabic Letters of Ghadames Slaves in the Niger Bend, 1860–1900
A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960
The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating, and intensifying, civil wars that have occurred since the end of colonial rule in all of the countries that straddle the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. From Sudan to Mauritania, the racial categories deployed in contemporary conflicts often hearken back to an older history in which blackness could be equated with slavery and non-blackness with predatory…
How Slaves Used Islam: The Letters of Enslaved Muslim Commercial Agents in the Nineteenth-Century Niger Bend and Central Sahara
Historians of slavery in Africa have long struggled to recover the voices of enslaved people. In this article, an unusual set of sources found in Timbuktu (Mali) reveals the existence of a stratum of literate, Muslim slaves who wrote and received letters written in Arabic. These letters make it possible to probe the Islamic rhetoric used by Muslim slaves and ask how enslaved people who adopted Islam understood their faith. Did Muslim slaves arriv…
The question of 'race' in the pre-colonial southern Sahara
One of the principle issues that divide people in the southern margins of the Sahara Desert is the issue of 'race.' Each of the countries that share this region, from Mauritania to Sudan, has experienced civil violence with racial overtones since achieving independence from colonial rule in the 1950s and 1960s. Today's crisis in Western Sudan is only the latest example. However, very little academic attention has been paid to the issue of 'race' …
The question of 'race' in the pre-colonial southern Sahara
One of the principle issues that divide people in the southern margins of the Sahara Desert is the issue of 'race.' Each of the countries that share this region, from Mauritania to Sudan, has experienced civil violence with racial overtones since achieving independence from colonial rule in the 1950s and 1960s. Today's crisis in Western Sudan is only the latest example. However, very little academic attention has been paid to the issue of 'race' …
How Slaves Used Islam: The Letters of Enslaved Muslim Commercial Agents in the Nineteenth-Century Niger Bend and Central Sahara
Historians of slavery in Africa have long struggled to recover the voices of enslaved people. In this article, an unusual set of sources found in Timbuktu (Mali) reveals the existence of a stratum of literate, Muslim slaves who wrote and received letters written in Arabic. These letters make it possible to probe the Islamic rhetoric used by Muslim slaves and ask how enslaved people who adopted Islam understood their faith. Did Muslim slaves arriv…
Memory, Slavery and Muslim Citizenship in the post-Emancipation circum-Saharan World
Le Maroc et la Mauritanie comportent des sociétés post-émancipation où des luttes sont en cours sur les significations attribuées à la liberté et à la citoyenneté après l’esclavage. Comme dans d’autres régions limitrophes du Sahara, l’identité sociale et la situation économique des anciens esclaves et de leurs descendants sont sujets à contestation. Des idées raciales formulées dans ces contextes locaux sont courantes pour marquer les personnes a…
The question of 'race' in the pre-colonial southern Sahara
One of the principle issues that divide people in the southern margins of the Sahara Desert is the issue of 'race.' Each of the countries that share this region, from Mauritania to Sudan, has experienced civil violence with racial overtones since achieving independence from colonial rule in the 1950s and 1960s. Today's crisis in Western Sudan is only the latest example. However, very little academic attention has been paid to the issue of 'race' …
A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960
The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating, and intensifying, civil wars that have occurred since the end of colonial rule in all of the countries that straddle the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. From Sudan to Mauritania, the racial categories deployed in contemporary conflicts often hearken back to an older history in which blackness could be equated with slavery and non-blackness with predatory…
How Slaves Used Islam: The Letters of Enslaved Muslim Commercial Agents in the Nineteenth-Century Niger Bend and Central Sahara
Historians of slavery in Africa have long struggled to recover the voices of enslaved people. In this article, an unusual set of sources found in Timbuktu (Mali) reveals the existence of a stratum of literate, Muslim slaves who wrote and received letters written in Arabic. These letters make it possible to probe the Islamic rhetoric used by Muslim slaves and ask how enslaved people who adopted Islam understood their faith. Did Muslim slaves arriv…
The Arabic Letters of Ghadames Slaves in the Niger Bend, 1860–1900
Saharan Commerce and Islamic Law: The Question of Usury ( ribā ) in the Nawāzil Literature of Mali And Mauritania, 1700-1929
From the earliest days of the formation of Islamic law, commerce with sub-Saharan Africa—the land of the blacks—was deemed an undesirable undertaking from a moral point of view. For example, in his foundational Maliki textbook known simply as the Risāla, the tenth-century North African scholar
Excavating Arabic sources for the history of slavery in Western Africa
An early twentieth-century correspondence between the French colonial administration and the trading com munity of St. Louis, expressing concern for their commercial activities, makes clear that the exchange of slaves for firearms was ongoing."Rapport do détégue du Gouverneur Général en Pays Maures (Xavier Coppolani) a Monsieur Ic Gouvemeur Génhral de I'A.O.F.sur Ia mission d'organisation du Tagant, ' lbn Abf Zayd, 224, 226, 228; Khahl devotes a …
Rethinking the Place of Timbuktu in the Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa
Memory, Slavery and Muslim Citizenship in the post-Emancipation circum-Saharan World
Le Maroc et la Mauritanie comportent des sociétés post-émancipation où des luttes sont en cours sur les significations attribuées à la liberté et à la citoyenneté après l’esclavage. Comme dans d’autres régions limitrophes du Sahara, l’identité sociale et la situation économique des anciens esclaves et de leurs descendants sont sujets à contestation. Des idées raciales formulées dans ces contextes locaux sont courantes pour marquer les personnes a…
African Studies and Geopolitics (8 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Arabic (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (3 works)