| An Islamic Alliance: Ali Dinar and the Sanusiyya, 1906-1916 Contributor(s): Spaulding, Jay (Author), Kapteijns, Lidwien (Author) |
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ISBN: 0810128098 ISBN-13: 9780810128095 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - North - Social Science | Islamic Studies |
| Dewey: 962.7 |
| Series: Islam and Society in Africa |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.60 lbs) 190 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Islamic - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - North Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An Islamic Alliance uses non-European sources to portray the defense, by devoutly Islamic leaders, of some of the last parts of the African continent to be conquered during the imperial European scramble for Africa that ended with the First World War. These surviving pieces of diplomatic correspondence concentrate on the alliance between Ali Dinar, prince of the sultanate of Dar Fur in the western Sudan, and the leaders of the Sanusi brotherhood then based in southern Libya. In contrast to the European view of the alliance as ephemeral, the documents indicate a sincere, passionate attempt to join--despite immense physical difficulties--an ancient monarchist tradition to a more modern, trade-based sociopolitical organization. |