Auteur(s) :
Hunwick
John,
Harrak
Fatima
Type : Article
Titre Publication en série :
Publications of the Institute of African Studies : Series : Texts and documents
Editeur(s) : Institut des études africaines
Année de Publication :
2000
Langue : EN
Collation :
N°7,
66 p.
: réf.
Mots-clés :
ESCLAVE ; ISLAM ; IMAM MUSULMAN ; OULAMA ; PENSÉE ISLAMIQUE ; FIQH ; AFRIQUE ;
ESCLAVAGE ; FATWA ; ETHNOGRAPHIE.
The Mi'raj al-Su'ud of Ahmed Baba is unique as a treatise expounding the religious ethnography of West Africa in the seventeenth century, and for the rulings it presents on the question of those who may be held in slavery. Although we do not yet have a clear idea of how widely it was read, or cited as an authority, it was certainly known of the Fulani reformer Shaykh Uthman B. Muhammad Fodiye of Sokoto, who quoted it in his Bayan wujub al-hijra, while pointing out that the situation as regards believers and unbelievers in Hausaland had changed since Ahmad Baba's day.
N° de la microfiche : 043644