STUDIES in the history of the Sokoto caliphate: the Sokoto seminar papers

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1979
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Zaria: The Department of History Ahmadu Bello University,
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The meaning of the Sokoto jihad; the 1804 jihad in Hausa land as a revolution; the transformation of political communities: some notes on a significant dimension of the Sokoto jihad; distribution of trading centers in the Central Sudan in the 18th and 19th centuries; a survey of the economy of the Eastern Emirates of the Sokoto caliphate in the 19th century; aspects of an urban phenomenon: Sokoto and its hinterland to c. 1850; urbanisation in the Sokoto caliphate: a case study of Gusau and Kaura-namoda; some reflections on the literature of the jihad and the caliphate; contributions of the Sokoto jihad leaders to Quranic studies; the significance of the Shehu’s sermons and poems in Ajami; an elementary study of the fiqh of Dan Fodio; the contemporary significance of the academic ideals of the Sokoto jihad; the force of religion in the conduct of political affairs and interpersonal relations in Borno and Sokoto; the position of Gwandu in the Sokoto caliphate; the Emirates and the central government: the case of Kano-Sokoto relations; Sokoto and her provinces: some reflections on the case of Adamawa; “Kalfu" or the Fulbe emirate of Bagirmi and the Toorobbe of Sokoto; the diplomatic relations of the Sokoto caliphate: some thoughts and a plea; Adar. The Touareg and Sokoto: relations of Sokoto with the Hausawa and Touareg during the nineteenth century; diplomatic relations in early 19th century west Africa: Sokoto-Matsina-Azaouad correspondence; the relationship between the Sokoto jihad and the jihad of Al-hajj Umar: a new assessment; the relationship between the Sokoto caliphate and the non-Muslim people of the middle Benue region; a contribution to the biography of the Shaykh Usman mentioning the various places where he lived; Uthman Dan Fodio: the Mujaddid of West Africa; speech by His Excellency, the military governor of the North-Western state, Alhaji Usman Faruk, assistant commissioner of police at the opening of the seminar Sokoto. Monday 6th January, 1975

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This publication is made up of all but one of the twenty-five papers presented at the Sokoto Seminar in Sokoto 6-10 January 1975. The seminar was organized by the two departments of history, the one in the main campus of Ahmadu Bello University in Zaira and the other at the Abdullahi Bayero College in Kano, with the support of Arewa House, Kaduna. The Sokoto Seminar was the third in a series of annual seminars on specific themes, organized by the two departments. The first was the seminar on the history of Borno, in the 1972/73 session. The second, known as the Niger-Benue Seminar, was on the theme of the history of the peoples of the Niger-Benue valleys and the central plateaux and highlands of Nigeria; and was organized in the 1973/74 session. Since this third seminar, on the theme of the history of the Sokoto Caliphate, in January 1975, there have been two more. The fourth was on the economic history of the West African savannah, held in Kano, in January 1976; and the fifth was on the cultural history of West Africa in the second millennium A.D. and was held in Zaria in April 1977.
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