An Islamic Alliance: Ali Dinar and the Sanusiyya, 1906-1916

by Jay Spaulding and Lidwien Kapteijns

Book Overview

An Islamic Alliance uses non-European sources to portray the defense, by devoutly Islamic leaders, of some of the last parts of the African continent to be conquered during the imperial European "scramble for Africa" that ended with the First World War. These surviving pieces of diplomatic correspondence concentrate on the alliance between Ali Dinar, prince of the sultanate of Dar Fur in the western Sudan, and the leaders of the Sanusi brotherhood...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810128098
• ISBN13: 9780810128095
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"