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Ahmad al-Bakkai al-Kunti

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66: 62:(a non-Muslim subject of a Muslim ruler) nor an enemy of Islam, but the native of a friendly country, that is Great Britain. He went as far as to deny Ahmad Ahmad ibn Muhammad Lobbo the right to proclaim a jihad and called him "the ruler over a few huts at the outskirts of the Islamic world". 85:
region. His voluminous correspondence provides a rare, detailed glimpse into political and religious thought in 19th century West Africa regarding the primary concerns of; the nature of the
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he denied the former's right to have Barth arrested or killed and his belongings confiscated, as the Christian was neither a
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for an accommodationist stance towards the threatening Christian European presence, and even provided protection to
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communities, issues surrounding the encroaching Christian powers, and the growing politicalization of
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and political leader. He was one of the last principal spokesmen in precolonial Western
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shaykhs, whose prestige and religious influence were interwoven with the
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Moorish marabut of the Kunta tribe, Timbuktu region, late 19th century
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Britain, the Sahara and the Western Sudan 1788 to 1861.
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Oxford 1964 (containing an English translation of the
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Index

Azawad
Timbuktu
West African
Islamic
Sudan
Heinrich Barth
Massina
Amadu III
fatwa
dhimmi

Kunta family
Qadiri
Timbuktu
Imamate
caliphate
Sudanese
Sufi
tariqah
Heinrich Barth
Albert Adu Boahen
John Esposito
Categories
1803 births
1865 deaths
Malian Sufis
19th century in Mali
Massina Empire
People of French West Africa
19th-century African people

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