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Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad: The Precolonial State of Bundu (African Studies, Series Number 75) by Michael Angelo Gomez is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Bundu is an anomaly among the precolonial Muslim states of West Africa. Founded during the jihads which swept the savannah in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it developed a pragmatic policy, unique in the midst of fundamentalist, theocratic Muslim states. Located in the Upper Senegal and with access to the Upper Gambia, Bundu played a critical role in regional commerce and production and reacted quickly to the stimulus of European trade. Drawing on a wide range of sources both oral and
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- Author
- Michael Angelo Gomez
- Publisher
- Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521528474
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Renaissance, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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