Telling Stories, Making Histories: Women, Words, and Islam in Nineteenth-Century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate by Mary Wren Bivins

Telling Stories, Making Histories: Women, Words, and Islam in Nineteenth-Century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate

Mary Wren Bivins

192 pages hardcover

2 editions

nonfiction history religion medium-paced
More Options

Read With Others

Book Information


Loading...

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 th...

Show More

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...