"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...
"An Islamic Alliance "uses non-European sources to portray the defense, by devoutly Islamic leaders, of some of the last parts of the African continen...
From the 9th to the 15th century Arab travellers and observers produced a rich literature in West Africa. An annotated translation of this body of work is found in "Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History". This title is a simplified form of this corpus for students.
From the 9th to the 15th century Arab travellers and observers produced a rich literature in West Africa. An annotated translation of this body of wor...
