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Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad: The Precolonial State of Bundu
by Michael A. Gomez

    Publication Date: Feb 26, 1993
    List Price: $149.00
    Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9780521419406
    Imprint: Cambridge University Press
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press
    Parent Company: Cambridge University

    Description of Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad: The Precolonial State of Bundu by Michael A. Gomez


    Bundu is an anomaly among the precolonial Muslim states of West Africa. Founded during the jihads which swept the savannah in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it developed a pragmatic policy, unique in the midst of fundamentalist, theocratic Muslim states. Located in the Upper Senegal and with access to the Upper Gambia, Bundu played a critical role in regional commerce and production and reacted quickly to the stimulus of European trade. Drawing on a wide range of sources both oral and documentary, Arabic, English and French, Dr. Gomez provides the first full account of Bundu’s history. He analyzes the foundation and growth of an Islamic state at a crossroads between the Saharan and trans-Atlantic trade, paying particular attention to the relationship between Islamic thought and court policy, and to the state’s response to militant Islam in the early nineteenth century.



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