African dominion : a new history of empire in early and medieval West Africa / Michael A. Gomez.
Gomez, Michael A., 1955- author.; Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
2018
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African dominion : a new history of empire in early and medieval West Africa / Michael A. Gomez.
Author
Gomez, Michael A., 1955- author.
Edition
[Enhanced Credo edition]
ISBN
9781787854055 (electronic book)
9780691177427
0691177422
9780691196824
0691196826
Published
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2019.
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
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1 online resource (25 entries) : illustrations.
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DT476 .G66 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
966.02
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
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Preface
Prologue
Part I. Early Sahel and Savannah: chapter 1. The middle Niger in pre-antiquity and global context; chapter 2. Early Gao; chapter 3. The kingdoms of Ghana: reform along the Senegal River; chapter 4. Slavery and race imagined in Bilād As-Sūdān
Part II. Imperial Mali: chapter 5. The meanings of Sunjata and the dawn of imperial Mali; chapter 6. Mansā Mūsā and global Mali; chapter 7. Intrigue, Islam, and Ibn Baṭṭūṭa
Part III. Imperial Songhay: chapter 8. Sunni 'Alī and the reinvention of Songhay; chapter 9. The Sunni and the scholars: a tale of revenge; chapter 10. Renaissance: the age of Askia Al-Ḥājj Muḥammad; chapter 11. Of clerics and concubines
Part IV. Le dernier de l'empire: chapter 12. Of fitnas and fratricide: the nadir of imperial Songhay; chapter 13. Surfeit and stability: the era of Askia Dāwūd; chapter 14. The rending asunder: dominion's end
Epilogue. A thousand years
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