One Woman's Jihad: Nana Asma'u, Scholar and Scribe - Paperback
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One Woman's Jihad: Nana Asma'u, Scholar and Scribe
" . . . 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...
Beverly B. Mack is Assistant Professor of African and African-American Studies at the University of Kansas. She is co-editor (with Jean Boyd) of The Collected Works of Nana Asma'u, 1793-1864.
Jean Boyd is former Principal Research Fellow of the Sokoto History Bureau and Research Associate of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She is the author of The Caliph's...
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