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Title:Note on the Ethnic Interpretation of the Fulani Jihad
Author:Waldman, Marilyn R.
Year:1966
Periodical:Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
Volume:36
Issue:3
Period:July
Pages:286-291
Language:English
Geographic terms:Northern Nigeria
Nigeria
Subjects:Fulani
jihads
Religion and Witchcraft
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External links:https://www.jstor.org/stable/1157684
https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1966-036-00-000019
Abstract:Some authors have viewed the jihad as basically the attempt of one ethnic group to dominate another. The present note argues that the characteristics often attibuted to the Fulani before the jihad and thus to be responsible for it were not in fact significant traits of the Fulani before the jihad and therefore cannot be said to have caused it. Contemporary ethnic distinctions have not derived from these characteristics but resulted from other factors - both ethnic and non-ethnic - associated with the conduct and outcome of the jihad itself. The subject divides itself into three parts: 1. what is known about the 'ethnic' characteristics of the Fulani before the jihad; 2. to what extent and in what way any kind of ethnic explanation is possible after a study of the composition of the warriors on both sides; 3. the historical process by which contemporary ethnic distinctions arose from jihad itself and its outcome. Notes; French summary.
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