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Telling Stories, Making Histories Women, Words, and Islam in Nineteenth-Century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate
Mary Wren Bivins
ISBN: 0-325-07013-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-325-07013-1
208 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/2007
List Price: $89.95 (UK Sterling Price: £62.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Social History of Africa
Description: Through reconstruction of oral testimony, folk stories and poetry, the true history of Hausa women and their reception of Islam's vision of Muslim in Western Africa have been uncovered. Mary Wren Bivins is the first author to locate and examine the oral texts of the 19th century Hausa women and challenge the written documentation of the Sokoto Caliphate. The personal narratives and folk stories reveal the importance of illiterate, non-elite women to the history of jihad and the assimilation of normative Islam in rural Hausaland. The captivating lives of the Hausa are captured, shedding light on their ordinary existence as wives, mothers, and providers for their family on the eve of European colonial conquest.

 Title Features:
From European observations to stories of marriage, each entry provides a personal account of the Hausa women's encounters with Islamic reform to the center of an emerging Muslim Hausa identity.

Each entry focuses on:
Female historiography
The importance of oral history
New methodoligical approaches to the oral culture of popular Islam
The raw voice of Hausa women.

The comprehensive history is easy to read and touches on an era that no other scholar has dissected.
About the Author: Mary Wren Bivins is Visiting Assistant Professor at SUNY Oswego in New York. Much of her expertise stems from her own experiences teaching in Nigeria, Niger, Zaria and Kano, where she has lived over the past 30 years of her life.
LCC Class: 305
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