عنوان

"Where is My Region?" Geographical Representation and Textuality in Sokoto

شماره

LA111041

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

"Where is My Region?" Geographical Representation and Textuality in Sokoto

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Stephanie Zehnle

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This paper is devoted to geographical knowledge of the world and the definition of homeland and outland among the elite of the early Sokoto Caliphate (ca. 1800-1840). It argues that with the creation of a territorial jihadist state, geography became an important tool within religious and political discourses because in Sokoto warfare was predicated upon a precise mapping of the "Land of Islam" and the "Land of Unbelief". The circulation of contradictory accounts about landscapes and rivers in the Sahel via medieval Arabic books, traders, pilgrims and soldiers, will receive special attention. The key argument is that written geographical accounts and cartography from Sokoto were not only restricted by the information available for this task, but also by the characteristics of the genres: texts can express uncertainties about concepts of space, in contrast, cartography requires geographical definition and spatial exactitude. This article is thus dedicated to the analysis of content and form of geographical discourses in the early Sokoto State by the comparison of texts and a map. This paper is devoted to geographical knowledge of the world and the definition of homeland and outland among the elite of the early Sokoto Caliphate (ca. 1800-1840). It argues that with the creation of a territorial jihadist state, geography became an important tool within religious and political discourses because in Sokoto warfare was predicated upon a precise mapping of the "Land of Islam" and the "Land of Unbelief". The circulation of contradictory accounts about landscapes and rivers in the Sahel via medieval Arabic books, traders, pilgrims and soldiers, will receive special attention. The key argument is that written geographical accounts and cartography from Sokoto were not only restricted by the information available for this task, but also by the characteristics of the genres: texts can express uncertainties about concepts of space, in contrast, cartography requires geographical definition and spatial exactitude. This article is thus dedicated to the analysis of content and form of geographical discourses in the early Sokoto State by the comparison of texts and a map.

تاريخ نشر

2018

توصيف ظاهري

10-33

عنوان

Islamic Africa

شماره جلد

9/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2154-0993

اصطلاح موضوعی

African Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

cartography

اصطلاح موضوعی

frontier

اصطلاح موضوعی

geography

اصطلاح موضوعی

Hausa

اصطلاح موضوعی

jihad

اصطلاح موضوعی

Land of Islam

اصطلاح موضوعی

Land of Unbelief

اصطلاح موضوعی

landscape

اصطلاح موضوعی

Religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

Sahel

اصطلاح موضوعی

Sokoto

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Stephanie Zehnle

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/21540993-00901002

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y