Kordofan Invaded: Peripheral Incorporation and Social Transformation in Islamic Africa FROM THE PUBLISHER
This volume addresses economic change, regional politics and Islamisation in Kordofan, a large province in the Sudan. Kordofan's history is characterised by resistance and adaptation to expanding states and market forces causing both sectoral transformation and stagnation. The contributors in different ways examine the interplay between local and invading institutions, and include studies of Kordofan as a terra media between Darfur and Sinnar, international trade in the nineteenth century, the Mahdist revolt, the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (with particular reference to land tenure and tribal identity), Kordofan in Sudanese nationalist poetry, local politics in the Nuba Mountains and the conflict between religious orthodoxy and local practice. The book will be of interest to scholars of Africa and Islam because of its novel focus on regional institutions and their relation to state structures.
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Eleven contributors address economic change, regional politics and Islamization in Kordofan (a large province in the Sudan) to provide a complex picture of the processes of resistance, peripheral incorporation, and sectoral transformation at a local rather than national level. The focus of the book is on the dynamics between centers of state power and regions, and it brings together recent research on the Sudan, Europe, and the United States. A sampling of topics: Kordofan in Sudanese nationalist poetry, international trade in the region in the 19th century, and the conflict between religious orthodoxy and local practice. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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