One Woman's Jihad

"... a most welcome addition to the body of scholarship on the Sokoto Jihad and Caliphate." -- Religious Studies ReviewThe fascinating life and times of Nana Asma'u (1793 - 1864), a West African woman who was a Muslim scholar and poet. As the daughter of the spiritual and political leader of the Sokoto community, Asma'u was a role model and teacher for other Muslim women as well as a scholar of Islam and a key advisor to her father as he waged a jihad to bring Islam to the population of what is now northwestern Nigeria.

Beverly B. Mack is Assistant Professor of African and African-American Studies at the University of Kansas. She is co-editor (with Jean Boyd) of The Collected Works of Nana Asma'u, 1793-1864.

Jean Boyd is former Principal Research Fellow of the Sokoto History Bureau and Research Associate of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She is the author of The Caliph's Sister and Sultan Siddiq Abubakar III.

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xvii

Note on Foreign Terms

xix

Nana Asma'u and the Scholarly Islamic Tradition

1

(14)

Qadiriyya Sufism: The Qur'an and the Sunna

15

(15)

The Caliphate Community

30

(16)

The Poetic Tradition

46

(17)

Sokoto as Medina: Imitating the Life of the Prophet and Re-enacting History

63

(13)

Caliphate Women's Participation in the Community

76

(97)

Appendix: Poems

Nana Asma'u

Elegy for Bello

94

(3)

Bello's Character

97

(3)

The Qur'an

100

(2)

Medicine of the Prophet

102

(18)

Be Sure of God's Truth

120

(7)

Sufi Women

127

(5)

So Verily...

132

(1)

In Praise of Ahmada

133

(4)

Yearning for the Prophet

137

(20)

The Journey

157

(9)

A Warning, II

166

(2)

Lamentation for Aisha, I

168

(2)

Lamentation for Aisha, II

170

(3)

Glossary of Terms

173

(6)

Notes

179

(8)

Works Cited

187

(4)

Index

191

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