Paul Lovejoy makes an original and important contribution to several major historiographies-of Africa, Islam, the Atlantic World, the Atlantic slave trade, slavery in the Americas, and the comparative history of slavery. Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions is grounded in deep research in both primary and secondary sources, and perhaps most importantly, in a professional lifetime spent ... Read morethinking deeply and creatively about these topics.
Randy J. Sparks, Tulane University Jihad in West Africa is a hugely compelling book, prompting Africanists, Atlanticists and specialists of revolutionary Europe and the Americas to reconsider established paradigms and break from the silos imposed by a mixture of cultural divides, rigid geographic parameters and different linguistic specializations. This book represents ... a career-spanning synthesis of Lovejoy's most influential work, as well as a challenging and original argument about the importance of `mainstreaming' the history of the West African jihadist movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth century into broader accounts of the `Age of Revolutions' in the Atlantic world....Jihad in West Africa During the Age of Revolutions will undoubtedly become the standard reference in the field.
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