"This study provides, for the first time, an examination of slavery and its legacy in the Yoruba and incompletely Islamicized periphery of the Sokoto Caliphate and of Northern Nigeria. It links the story of the decline of slavery with the emergence of a small-scale peasantry, an…
This book provides an understanding of the complexities of political legitimacy in Islamic dynasties by examining Fatimid political culture in Egypt reconstructed from court rituals. The author approaches ritual as a dynamic process through which claims to political and religiou…
