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Title:The idea of Islamic revoloution and Tukulor constitutional evolution
Author:Oloruntimehin, B. OlatunjiISNI
Year:1971
Periodical:Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Série B: Sciences humaines
Volume:33
Issue:4
Pages:675-692
Language:English
Geographic term:Senegal
Subjects:Islamic history
history
Tukolor polity
Abstract:'Islamic revolution' is a term of reference useful more for its convenience than for its correctness or precision as a description of the concrete historical reality. An attempt is made to spotlight the underlying assumptions and examine the inadequacies of this approach and, in relation to the Tukulor empire to put the 'Islamic' factor within the proper context by shoving that the emergence and constitutional evolution of the empire can best be understood through an approach that assumes a constant interaction of Islamic and Pre- or non-Islamic concepts. This approach assumes that Islam was, in the Tukulor revolution and empire (during the second half of the 19th century), no more than a catalyst which stimulated a chain of reactions most of which had little or no connections with, nor changed the nature of, the catalyst itself. Notes.
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