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| Publications of Bruce S. Hall :chronological combined by tags listing:%% Books @book{fds295466, Author = {Hall, BS}, Title = {A history of race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960}, Publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, Address = {New York}, Year = {2011}, url = {http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item6038441/?site_locale=en_US}, Abstract = {The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating, and intensifying, civil wars that have occurred in all of the countries that straddle the southern edge of the Sahara Desert (or Sahel) since the end of colonial rule. From Sudan to Mauritania, the racial categories deployed in contemporary conflicts often hearken back to an older history in which blackness could be equated with slavery and non-blackness (i.e. Arab-ness, Tuareg-ness, Fulbe-ness, etc.) with predatory and uncivilized banditry. This book traces the development of arguments about race over a period of more than three hundred and fifty years (1600-1960) in one important place along the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, the Niger Bend in northern Mali. Using local Arabic documents held in Timbuktu, as well as local colonial sources in French and oral interviews, the book demonstrates that local arguments about racial difference long predated colonial conquest.}, Key = {fds295466} } %% Journal Articles @article{fds225368, Author = {Bruce S. Hall}, Title = {"Saharan Commerce and Islamic Law: The Question of Usury 1 (ribā) in the Nawāzil Literature of Mali and Mauritania, 1700-1929"}, Journal = {African Economic History}, Volume = {41}, Pages = {1-20}, Year = {2013}, Key = {fds225368} } @article{fds321570, Author = {Hall, BS}, Title = {A History of Libya}, Journal = {The International journal of African historical studies}, Volume = {46}, Number = {2}, Pages = {332-333}, Year = {2013}, Key = {fds321570} } @article{fds321572, Author = {Hall, BS}, Title = {A History of Libya. By John Wright}, Journal = {The International journal of African historical studies}, Volume = {44}, Number = {3}, Pages = {458-460}, Year = {2011}, Key = {fds321572} } @article{fds295465, Author = {Hall, BS}, Title = {Arguing sovereignty in Songhay}, Journal = {Afriques: Débats, methods et terraines d’histoire}, Volume = {4}, Pages = {1-17}, Year = {2013}, Abstract = {Recent archaeological, historical, and anthropological literature on the development of social and political complexity in Africa challenges older models of state formation that once informed the understanding of medieval Sahelian empires such as Songhay. We now know that there were multiple paths to complexity that did not necessarily lead to state formation, and that there was a heterarchical distribution of power in many African political formations. Despite this, the historiography of pre-colonial states in Sahelian West Africa, and of the role of Islam in these political formations, retains an attachment to a particular model of statehood derived from Arabic geographies and chronicles. Emphasis continues to be placed on military power and a largely ambivalent relationship between Islam and indigenous forms of authority. In this article, I offer a reinterpretation of the exercise and rhetoric of sovereignty in imperial Songhay by focusing on some of the ways in which Islamic authority was claimed and contested by its rulers. I argue that Songhay rulers claimed a religious authority that far outstripped their coercive power. Instead of an ambivalent relationship between the Muslim religious estate and secular power, Islamic religious authority was the principal basis of Songhay rulers’ claims to extensive power.}, Key = {fds295465} } @article{fds295468, Author = {Hall, BS}, Title = {Bellah Histories of Decolonization, Iklan Paths to Freedom: The Meanings of Race and Slavery in the Late-Colonial Niger Bend (Mali), 1944-1960}, Journal = {The International journal of African historical studies}, Volume = {44}, Number = {1}, Pages = {61-87}, Year = {2011}, ISSN = {0361-7882}, url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000292753100004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92}, Key = {fds295468} } @article{fds295467, Author = {Hall, BS}, Title = {HOW SLAVES USED ISLAM: THE LETTERS OF ENSLAVED MUSLIM COMMERCIAL AGENTS IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NIGER BEND AND CENTRAL SAHARA}, Journal = {The Journal of African History}, Volume = {52}, Number = {3}, Pages = {279-297}, Year = {2011}, ISSN = {0021-8537}, url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000299599700001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92}, Abstract = {Historians of slavery in Africa have long struggled to recover the voices of enslaved people. In this article, an unusual set of sources found in Timbuktu (Mali) reveals the existence of a stratum of literate, Muslim slaves who wrote and received letters written in Arabic. These letters make it possible to probe the Islamic rhetoric used by Muslim slaves and ask how enslaved people who adopted Islam understood their faith. Did Muslim slaves arrive at different interpretations of Islam than those Muslims who were free? Using the correspondence of two slaves who worked as agents in their master’s commercial activities in the Niger Bend and Central Sahara during the second half of the nineteenth century, the article demonstrates the extent to which Muslim slaves used appeals to their own piety in attempting to carve out a certain amount of social autonomy. For these Muslim slaves, Islam could be made to serve both spiritual and practical ends. And yet, this did not require slaves to interpret Islam in ways that rejected the legitimacy of slavery.}, Doi = {10.1017/S0021853711000491}, Key = {fds295467} } @article{fds295464, Author = {B.S. Hall and Lecocq, B and Mann, G and Whitehouse, B and Badi, D and Pelckmans, L and Belalimat, N and Hall, B and Lacher, W}, Title = {One hippopotamus and eight blind analysts: a multivocal analysis of the 2012 political crisis in the divided Republic of Mali}, Journal = {Review of African Political Economy}, Volume = {40}, Number = {137}, Pages = {343-357}, Year = {2013}, Month = {September}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2013.799063}, Abstract = {This is an exercise in contemporary history that aims to give a comprehensive background and analysis to the 2012 political crisis in Mali, generated by the start of a new Tuareg nationalist uprising against the state, complemented by a coordinated attack on the state by both international (AQIM) and local Jihadi–Salafi movements, leading to a coup d’état against the incumbent President Touré, and finally a political stalemate of great concern to the international community.}, Doi = {10.1080/03056244.2013.799063}, Key = {fds295464} } @article{fds321571, Author = {Hall, BS}, Title = {Saharan commerce and Islamic law: The question of usury (Ribā) in the Nawāzil literature of Mali and Mauritania, 1700-1929}, Journal = {African Economic History}, Volume = {41}, Number = {41}, Pages = {1-18}, Year = {2013}, Month = {January}, Key = {fds321571} } @article{fds295469, Author = {Hall, BS}, Title = {The Question of ‘Race’ in the Pre-colonial Southern Sahara}, Journal = {Journal of North African Studies}, Volume = {10}, Number = {3-4}, Pages = {339-367}, Year = {2005}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10161/6642 Duke open access}, Key = {fds295469} } %% Book Chapters @misc{fds295454, Author = {Hall, BS}, Title = {An early Tuareg anti-colonial manifesto? A local critique of the French occupation of the Niger Bend}, Pages = {107-47}, Booktitle = {Le Temps des Oulèmas: les manuscrits africains comme sources historiques}, Publisher = {Etudes Nigeriens}, Address = {Niamey}, Editor = {Moumouni, S and Pawlikova-Vilhanova, V}, Year = {2009}, Key = {fds295454} } @misc{fds295455, Author = {Hall, BS}, Title = {Bellah Highwaymen: Slave banditry and crime in colonial northern Mali}, Pages = {193-215}, Booktitle = {Islam, Slavery and Diaspora}, Publisher = {Africa World Press}, Address = {Trenton, NJ}, Editor = {Montana, IM and Mirzai, BA and Lovejoy, P}, Year = {2009}, Key = {fds295455} } @article{fds295456, Author = {Hall, BS and Stewart, CC}, Title = {The historic ‘Core Curriculum,’ and the book market in Islamic West Africa}, Pages = {109-74}, Booktitle = {The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Arabic Literacy, Manuscript Culture, and Intellectual History in Islamic Africa}, Publisher = {Brill}, Address = {Leiden}, Editor = {Krätli, G and Lydon, G}, Year = {2011}, Key = {fds295456} } @misc{fds295459, Author = {Hall, BS and Addoun, YD}, Title = {“The Arabic Letters of the Ghadames Slaves in the Niger Bend, 1860-1900”}, Pages = {pp.485-500}, Booktitle = {African Slavery/African Voices}, Publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, Address = {New York}, Editor = {Bellagamba, A and Greene, S and Brown, C and Klein, M}, Year = {2013}, Abstract = {This is an annotated translation of ten letters with an introduction.}, Key = {fds295459} } %% Book Reviews @article{fds295461, Author = {Hall, BS}, Title = {Review of Ghislaine Lydon, On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2009)}, Journal = {Journal of World History}, Volume = {22}, Number = {3}, Pages = {618-21}, Year = {2011}, Key = {fds295461} } @article{fds295460, Author = {Hall, BS}, Title = {Review of John Wright, A History of Libya (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010).}, Journal = {International Journal of African Historical Studies}, Volume = {44}, Number = {3}, Pages = {458-60}, Year = {2011}, Key = {fds295460} } @article{fds295463, Author = {Hall, BS}, Title = {Review of Judith Scheele, Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara: regional connectivity in the twentieth century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012)}, Journal = {Politique Africaine}, Number = {131}, Pages = {224-31}, Year = {2013}, Month = {October}, Key = {fds295463} } %% Other @misc{fds295453, Author = {Hall, BS}, Title = {Historiography of Islamic Africa}, Booktitle = {New Encyclopedia of Africa}, Publisher = {Charles Scribner’s Sons}, Address = {New York}, Editor = {Middleton, J and Miller, J}, Year = {2008}, Key = {fds295453} } | |
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