Blood Partnership in Theory and in Practice: The Expansion of Muslim Power in Dar Al-Kuti

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Title:	Blood Partnership in Theory and in Practice: The Expansion of Muslim Power in Dar Al-Kuti
Author:	Cordell, Dennis D.
Year:	1979
Periodical:	The Journal of African History
Volume:	20
Issue:	3
Pages:	379-394
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Central African Republic
Subjects:	Islamic history Banda blood brotherhood History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Religion and Witchcraft
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/181121
Abstract:	This article examines the institution of blood partnership first theoretically, and then with reference to northern equatorial Africa and Dar al-Kuti, a Muslim slave-trading and slave-trading state. The first part shows that blood alliances were concluded almost exclusively between parties who were not related genealogically, and promoted security, co-operation and long distance trade. The second part of the article presents a picture of blood partnership among the Banda, the most important non-Muslim people in what now is the Central African Empire. Notes, map, sum.