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Islam --- Study and teaching --- Study and teaching. --- Sokoto State (Nigeria) --- Nigeria --- History --- Islamic studies --- Sokoto, Nigeria (State) --- Sokoto (Nigeria : State) --- North-Western State (Nigeria) --- Kebbi State (Nigeria) --- Zamfara State (Nigeria)

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Sokoto was the largest and longest lasting of West Africa's nineteenth-century Muslim empires. Its intellectual and political elite left behind a vast written record, including over 300 Arabic texts authored by the jihad's leaders: Usman dan Fodio, his brother Abdullahi and his son, Muhammad Bello (known collectively as the Fodiawa). Sokoto's early years are one of the most documented periods of pre-colonial African history, yet current narratives pay little attention to the formative role these texts played in the creation of Sokoto, and the complex scholarly world from which they originated. Far from being unified around a single concept of Muslim statecraft, this book demonstrates how divided the Fodiawa were about what Sokoto could and should be, and the various discursive strategies they used to enrol local societies into their vision. Based on a close analysis of the sources (some appearing in English translation for the first time) and an effort to date their intellectual production, the book restores agency to Sokoto's leaders as individuals with different goals, characters and methods. More generally, it shows how revolutionary religious movements gain legitimacy, and how the kind of legitimacy they claim changes as they move from rebels to rulers.

Islamic leadership --- Islamic leadership. --- History --- Sources. --- Usuman dan Fodio, --- ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, --- Bello, Muḥammad, --- 1800-1899 --- Sokoto State (Nigeria) --- Nigeria --- Muslim leadership --- Leadership --- Dan Fodio, Usuman, --- D̳anfodio, Usman, --- Danfodiyo, Uthman, --- Fodio, Usman ibn, --- Fodio, Usuman dan, --- Fodio, Uthman ibn, --- Foduye, Usman B., --- Foduy̳e, Usuman b̳ii, --- Fûdî, Osman b., --- Fuduy̳e, Uthman dan, --- Ibn Fodio, Uthman, --- Ibn Fūdī, ʻUthmān ibn Muḥammad, --- Osman b. Fûdî, --- Othman dan Fodio, --- Usman B. Foduye, --- Usman dan Fodio, --- Usman ibn Fodio, --- Usmanu Dan Fodiye, --- Usmanu Dan Fodiyo, --- Usuman b̳ii Foduy̳e, --- Usumanu Dan Fodiyo, --- Uthman b. Fodio, --- Uthman b. Foduye, --- ʻUthmān bin Fūdī, --- ʻUthmān dan Fodio, --- ʻUthmān dān Fūdiyū, --- Uthman dan Fuduy̳e, --- Uthman Danfodiyo, --- Uthman ibn Fodio, --- ʻUthmān ibn Fūdī, --- ʻUt̲mān b. Fūdī, --- Ball, Muḥammad, --- Ballo, Muhammad, --- Bello, Mohammed, --- Belo, Mohammed, --- Bill, Muḥammad, --- Muḥammad Bīlū ibn ʼUthmān Fūdī, --- ʻAbd Allah b. Foduye, --- ʻAbd Allāh ibn Fūdī, --- ʻAbd Allāh ibn Fūdyū, --- Abdullahi b. Fodio, --- Abdullahi b. Fodiyo, --- Abdullahi bin Fodio, --- Abdullahi dan Foduye, --- Abdullahi ibn Fudi, --- Abdullahi ibn Fudios, --- Bin Fodio, Abdullahi, --- Dan-Fodio, ʻAbdullāhi, --- Dan Foduye, Abdullahi --- Fodio, Abdullahi bin, --- Foduye, ʻAbd Allah b., --- Foduye, Abdullahi B., --- Ibn Fūdī, ʻAbd Allāh, --- Ibn Fudi, Abdullahi, --- Ibn Fudios, Abdullahi, --- Ibn Fūdyū, ʻAbd Allāh, --- Nayjīrī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Fūdī, --- بلو، محمد --- بلو، محمد، --- عبد الله بن محمد --- عبد الله بن محمد، --- عثمان بن فودي --- عثمان بن فودي، --- Sokoto, Nigeria (State) --- Sokoto (Nigeria : State) --- North-Western State (Nigeria) --- Kebbi State (Nigeria) --- Zamfara State (Nigeria) --- African history. --- Muslim empires. --- Sokoto. --- West Africa. --- cultural history. --- legitimacy. --- religious movements.