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Issn Ser.: Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa by Jennifer Lofkrantz (2023, Hardcover)

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It focuses particularly on the nineteenth-century jihad era and on the Sokoto Caliphate and the Umarian States.

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PublisherUniversity of Rochester Medical Press

ISBN-101648250645

ISBN-139781648250644

eBay Product ID (ePID)6058386022

Product Key Features

Number of Pages228 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameRansoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa

Publication Year2023

SubjectIslam / History, Africa / West

TypeTextbook

AuthorJennifer Lofkrantz

Subject AreaReligion, History

SeriesIssn Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight14.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2022-058087

ReviewsThis book will be valuable to teachers and students seeking a unique perspective on the religious basis of warfare, violence, captivity, enslavement, and ransoming in Africa and in the Islamic world more broadly., With this excellent book, Lofkrantz has developed a pathbreaking study that is not only relevant to scholarship on West African slavery and Islamic slavery specifically, but also the scholarship on the relationship between captivity, slavery, and ransoming writ large., This brief book with its extensive bibliography is an excellent contribution to the ongoing discussions on the role of slavery and the slave trade in Islamic Africa.

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number97

Dewey Decimal364.1540966

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments List of Tables Introduction Chapter 1 - Islamic Discourse on Slavery and Ransoming before 1800 Chapter 2 - The Policy and Practice of Ransoming in the Maghrib Chapter 3 - Jihad, the Sokoto Caliphate, and Ransoming Chapter 4 - The Jihad of 'Umar Taal and its Ransoming Non-Policies Chapter 5 - The Negotiation and Practice of Ransoming Prisoners Conclusion Bibliography Index

SynopsisExamines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads., Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads. In this pioneering study--the first to cover ransoming, or the release of a prisoner prior to enslavement for cash or kind, in African regions south of the Sahara--Jennifer Lofkrantz focuses on a broad temporal and geographical area ranging from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries and including present-day Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Morocco. The work concentrates particularly on the nineteenth-century jihad era and on the Sokoto Caliphate and the Umarian States. The overall period was a time of intense intellectual debate over the questions of who was and who was not a Muslim, how Islamic law could and should be implemented, what rights and protections recognized freeborn Muslims should have, and what role governments should play in ensuring those rights especially during a time when slavery was legal. Ransoming discourses and procedures expose Muslim West African answers to these questions as well as providing a lens on broader issues and ideas on slavery, freedom, and religious and ethnic identity. Based on research conducted mostly in Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and France and on Arabic-, French-, and English-language archival sources, treatises, personal correspondence, oral sources and testimony, biographical data, travel reports, and early colonial documents, this study approaches the question of ransoming of captives through an examination, first, of intellectual debates among pre-nineteenth-century West African scholars on issues of ransoming; second, of nineteenth-century policies based on understandings of those intellectual debates in the context of the jihads; and, finally, of West African practices of ransoming in the nineteenth century.

LC Classification NumberHV6604