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Telling Stories, Making Histories Women, Words, and Islam in Nineteenth-Century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate
Mary Wren Bivins
Book Code: E07012
ISBN: 0-325-07012-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-325-07012-4
208 pages, photo
Heinemann
Publication: 3/30/2007
List Price: $29.95
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Social History of Africa
Reviews:
  • This book fills in crucial gaps in the historiography and historical knowledge of the Sokoto caliphate. Bivin's book makes an important contribution to research in the social history of precolonial Africa, Islamic expansion and the Sokoto caliphate, and African women's history.
    —International Journal of African Historical Studies     2008
Description: Through reconstruction of oral testimony, folk stories and poetry, the true history of Hausa women and their reception of Islam's vision of Muslim in Western Africa have been uncovered. Mary Wren Bivins is the first author to locate and examine the oral texts of the 19th century Hausa women and challenge the written documentation of the Sokoto Caliphate. The personal narratives and folk stories reveal the importance of illiterate, non-elite women to the history of jihad and the assimilation of normative Islam in rural Hausaland. The captivating lives of the Hausa are captured, shedding light on their ordinary existence as wives, mothers, and providers for their family on the eve of European colonial conquest. From European observations to stories of marriage, each entry provides a personal account of the Hausa women's encounters with Islamic reform to the center of an emerging Muslim Hausa identity. Each entry focuses on:
  • Female historiography
  • The importance of oral history
  • New methodological approaches to the oral culture of popular Islam
  • The raw voice of Hausa women.
    This comprehensive history is easy to read and touches on an era that no other scholar has dissected.
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