CHAPTER 12. Of Fitnas and Fratricide: The Nadir of Imperial Songhay

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Prologue 1
5. PART I. EARLY SAHEL AND SAVANNAH
6. CHAPTER 1. The Middle Niger in Pre-Antiquity and Global Context 11
7. CHAPTER 2. Early Gao 19
8. CHAPTER 3. The Kingdoms of Ghana: Reform along the Senegal River 30
9. CHAPTER 4. Slavery and Race Imagined in Bilād As-Sūdān 43
10. PART II. IMPERIAL MALI
11. CHAPTER 5. The Meanings of Sunjata and the Dawn of Imperial Mali 61
12. CHAPTER 6. Mansā Mūsā and Global Mali 92
13. CHAPTER 7. Intrigue, Islam, and Ibn Baṭṭūṭa 144
14. PART III. IMPERIAL SONGHAY
15. CHAPTER 8. Sunni ‘Alī and the Reinvention of Songhay 169
16. CHAPTER 9. The Sunni and the Scholars: A Tale of Revenge 193
17. CHAPTER 10. Renaissance: The Age of Askia Al-Ḥājj Muḥammad 219
18. CHAPTER 11. Of Clerics and Concubines 258
19. PART IV. LE DERNIER DE L’EMPIRE
20. CHAPTER 12. Of Fitnas and Fratricide: The Nadir of Imperial Songhay 315
21. CHAPTER 13. Surfeit and Stability: The Era of Askia Dāwūd 334
22. CHAPTER 14. The Rending Asunder: Dominion’s End 355
23. EPILOGUE. A Thousand Years 369
24. Notes 373
25. Select Bibliography 469
26. Index 479