One Woman’s Jihad Nana Asma’u, Scholar and Scribe

Free Download Jean Boyd, "One Woman’s Jihad: Nana Asma’u, Scholar and Scribe"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0253213983 | PDF | pages: 219 | 4.0 mb
" . . . 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 Islam and a key advisor to her father as he waged a jihad to bring Islam to the population of what is now northwestern Nigeria.