Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad: The Precolonial State of Bundu

by Michael A. Gomez

Book Overview

Bundu is an anomaly among the precolonial Muslim states of West Africa. Founded during the jihads which swept the savannah in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it developed a pragmatic policy, unique in the midst of fundamentalist, theocratic Muslim states. Located in the Upper Senegal and with access to the Upper Gambia, Bundu played a critical role in regional commerce and production and reacted quickly to the stimulus of European trade...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521419409
• ISBN13: 9780521419406
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"