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Title: | The Torodbe Clerisy: A Social View |
Author: | Willis, John R. |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 195-212 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | West Africa |
Subjects: | Islamic history ulema History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/181598 |
Abstract: | A salient feature of the great jihàds of the Western Sudan during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is chat the leadership for these wars of religious fervor sprang forth form a single source, the Toradbe clerisy, the 'ulamà. These Islamic revolutions have long been seen as 'Fulani jihàds' but it now appears that those Muslims that have until now been called 'Fulani' were Fulani in Language and culture only. and Chat in fact they were drawn from diverse strains of Sùdànì society, that Turudiyya suggests a métier and not an ethnic category. Torodbe Muslims ware of an eclectic social and ethnic origin, and they sought to establish a society open to all individuals prepared to embraces their customs and beliefs. Yet increasingly the Turudiyya became a closed world, discolored of their leveling intentions, and in several societies of the western Sudan they emerged as the dominant ruling group. This was the case, for example, in Futas Toro and Bundu. Notes, sum. |