Maasina

by Nobili, Mauro

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The Maasina empire was a nineteenth-century West African imāmate. “Maasina” is the local name of the region where the empire first emerged, the Inland Delta Niger, a multi-ethnic area inhabited by Fulani herdsmen, Marka, Bambara, and Songhay agriculturalists and Bozo fishermen. Alternatively known as the Dina (from Ar., al-dīn , the religion, Islam) or caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi (named for the newly founded capital), the Maasina empire extended, at its apogee, along the Niger River, from the Inlan…

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The Maasina empire was a nineteenth-century West African imāmate. “Maasina” is the local name of the region where the empire first emerged, the Inland Delta Niger, a multi-ethnic area inhabited by Fulani herdsmen, Marka, Bambara, and Songhay agriculturalists and Bozo fishermen. Alternatively known as the Dina (from Ar., al-dīn , the religion, Islam) or caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi (named for the newly founded capital), the Maasina empire extended, at its apogee, along the Niger River, from the Inland Delta to the Niger Bend, including the plains between the river

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei3013

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eng Islam

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Nobili, Mauro

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