Title Ransoming prisoners in precolonial Muslim western Africa / Jennifer Lofkrantz

Published Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2023 ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (x, 218 pages) Series Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora. Contents Introduction -- Chapter One-Islamic Discourse on Slavery and Ransoming before 1800 -- Chapter Two-The Policy and Practice of Ransoming in the Maghrib -- Chapter Three-Jihad, the Sokoto Caliphate, and Ransoming -- Chapter Four-The Jihad of 'Umar Taal and its Ransoming Non-Policies -- Chapter Five-The Negotiation and Practice of Ransoming Captives -- Conclusion Summary "This study, the first to cover ransoming in African regions south of the Sahara, ranges over a broad temporal and geographical area-from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries and including present-day Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Morocco. It focuses particularly on the nineteenth-century jihad era and on the Sokoto Caliphate and the Umarian States. The overall period was a time of intense intellectual debate over the questions of who was and who was not a Muslim, how Islamic law could and should be implemented, what rights and protections recognized freeborn Muslims should have, and what role governments should play in ensuring those rights especially during a time when slavery was legal. Ransoming discourses and procedures expose Muslim West African answers to these questions as well as providing a lens on broader issues and ideas on slavery, freedom, and religious and ethnic identity. Based on research conducted mostly in Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and France and on Arabic-, French-, and English-language archival sources, treatises, personal correspondence, oral sources and testimony, biographical data, travel reports, and early colonial documents, this study approaches the question of ransoming of captives through an examination, first, of intellectual debates amongst pre-nineteenth-century West African scholars on issues of ransoming; second, of nineteenth-century policies based on understandings of those intellectual debates in the context of the jihads; and, finally, of West African practices of ransoming in the nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 23, 2023) Subject Ransom -- Africa, West -- History Ransom -- Religious aspects -- Islam Slavery and Islam -- Africa, West Muslims -- Africa, West -- Intellectual life Islamic law -- Africa, West SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African Studies Intellectual life Islamic law Muslims -- Intellectual life Ransom Slavery and Islam SUBJECT Africa, West -- Intellectual life Subject West Africa Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2022058088 ISBN 1800109997 9781805430001 1805430009 9781800109995

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