One Woman's Jihad : Nana Asma'u, Scholar and Scribe (0253213983)

" . . . a most welcome addition to the body of scholarship on the Sokoto Jihad and Caliphate." -Religious Studies Review

The 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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 224 pages
• Dimensions 140 x 216 x 14.48mm | 272g
• Publication date 22 May 2000
• Publisher Indiana University Press
• Publication City/Country Bloomington, IN, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 3 b&w photos, 2 figures, 1 bibliog., 1 index
• ISBN10 0253213983
• ISBN13 9780253213983
• Bestsellers rank 957,865

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