Bibliography for the African Caliphate
Texts written by ʿAbdullahi dan Fodio
Ḍiyaa’ al-Ḥukkaam ضياء الحكّم
Ḍiyaa’ as-Sulṭaan ضياء السلطان
Ḍiyaa’ at-Ta’wiil ضياء التأويل
Ḍiyaa’ ‘Uli-l Amr wa-l-Mujaahidiin ضياء ألو الأمر والـمجاهدين
Iḍaa’ an-Nusuukh إضاء النّسوخ
Minan al-Minan منن الـمنن
Risaalat an-Naṣaa’iḥ رسالة النصائح
Sabiil an-Najaat سبيل النجاة
Tazyiin al-Waraqaat تزييين الورقات
Tibyaan li-Ḥuquuq al-Ikhwaan تبيان لحقوق الأخوان
Texts written by Shehu Usman Dan Fodio
al-Amr bi-l-Maʿruuf wa-n-Nahy ani-l-Munkar الأمر بالـمعروف والنهي عن الـمنكر
Asaaniid al-Faqiir أسانيد الفقير
Bayaan Wujuub al-Hijrah ala l-Ibaad بيان وجوب الهجرة على عباد
Hidaayat al-Ṭullaab هداية الطلاّب
Ḥisn al-Afhaam حصن الأفهام
Iʿdaad ad-daaʿi ilaa diinu-l-laah إعداد الداعي إلى دين الله
Iḥyaa’ as-Sunnah wa Ikhmaad al-Bidʿah إحياء السنّة وإخماد البدعة
Irshaad ahlu-t-Tafriiṭ wa-l-Ifraaṭ إرشاد أهل التفريط والأفراط
Irshaad al-Ikhwaan ilaa AhkaamKhuruuj
an-Niswaan أرشاد الإخوان إلى أحكام خروج النّسوان
al-Khabar al-Haadii ilaa Umuur al-Imam al-Mahdi الأخبار الهادي ألى أمور الإمام ااـمهدي
Kitaab al-Adab كتاب الأداب
Kitaab al-Farq كتاب الفرق
Miṣbaaḥ ahlu-z-Zamaan مصباح أهل الزمان
Masaa’il al-Muhimmah مسائل الـمهمّة
Najm al-Ikhwaan نجم الإخوان
Naṣaa’iḥ al-Ummah aI-Muḥammadiyyah نصائح الأمّة الـمحمّديّة
Naṣiiḥat ahlu-z-Zamaan نصيحة أهل الزمان
Nuur al-Albaab نور الألباب
Qawaa’id Ṭalabi-l-Uṣuul ila-l-laah قوائد طلب الأصول إلى اللّه
Taḥdhiir al-Ikhwaan تحذير الأخوان
Taʿliim al-Ikhwaan تعليم الإخوان
Ṭariiq al-Jannah تريق الجنّة
Tanbiih al-Ikhwaan تنبيه الإخوان
Tanbiih aṭ-Ṭalabah alaa anna Allah Taʿaala
Maruuf bil-Fiṭrah تنبيه الطلبة على أنّ الله تعالى معروف بالفطرة
ʿUmdaat al-ʿUbbaad عمدات العبّاد
ʿUmdaat al-ʿUlamaa’ عمدات العلماء
Uṣuul al-ʿAdl أصول العدل
Uṣuul al-Wilaayah أصول الولاية
Wathiiqat ahl as-Sudan وثيقة أهل السدان
Wathiiqat al-Ikhwaan وثيقة الأخوان
Text written by Muhammad Bello
Fawaa’id Mujmilah fi-Maa Jaa’ fi-l-Birr wa-l Sillah فوائذ مجملة فيما جاء في البر والسلّة
Infaaq al-Maysuur إنفاق الـميسور
Jalaa’ aṣ-Ṣuḍuur جلاء الصدور
Kaff al-Ikhwaan كفّ الأخوان
Shifaa’ al-Asqaam شفاء الأسقام
Ṭaaʿaat al-Khallaaq bi-Makaariim al-Akhlaaq طاعات الخللاّق بمكاريم الأخلاق
Tamḥiid al-ʿUmdaat al-ʿUbbaad تمحيد العمداة العبّاد
Other Arabic sources
Iḥyaa’ ʿUluumi-d-diin by Al-Ghazali إحياء علوم الدين
Aniis al-Mufiid by Abd al-Qadir the son of Waziri Gidado أنيس الـمفيد
Ḍabt al-Multaqaṭaat by Waziri Junaidu ضبط الـملتقطات
Rawḍ al-Jinaan by Wazir Gidado روض الجنان
Rawḍat al-Afkaar by Abdul Qadir ibn al-Mustafa (Dan Tafa) روضة الأفكار
Shurb az-Zulaal by al-Barnawi شرب الزلال
Taj ad-Deen Fii Maa ʿAla-l-Muluuk by al-Maghili تاج الدين في ما على الـملوك
Ta’riikh al-Fattaash by Muhammad al-Kati at-Timbukti تأريخ الفتّاش
Non-Arabic sources
Ajayi, J.F.A and Crowder, M.(eds.), ‘The Western Sudan from the Moroccan Invasion (1591) to the Death of al-Mukhtar al-Kunti (1811)’, in History of West Africa, Vol. 1(2nd ed.), 1976.
Arnett, E.J. ‘The Rise of the Sokoto Fulani’
Bagley, F.R.C Ghazali’s Book of Counsel for Kings, OUP, 1977
Balogun, Ismail critical edition of Ihyaa’ as-Sunnah as a doctoral thesis submitted to the University of London, 1967.
Balogun, Ismail The Life and Works of ʿUthman Dan Fodio, Islamic Publications Bureau, Lagos, 1975.
Batran, Abdal-Aziz Abdallah ‘A Contribution to the biography of Abd al-Karim ibn Muhammad al-Maghili al-Tilmasani’ in the Journal of African History, Vol. 14, 1973
Batran, Abd al-Aziz Abdallah ‘Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti and the Recrudescence of Islam in the Western Sahara and the Middle Niger’. Ph.D. thesis submitted to the University of Birmingham.
Batran, Abd al-Aziz Abdallah Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti and the Office of Shaykh aI-Tariqa al-Qadiriyyah’ in Studies in West African History, Volume 1
Batran, Abd al-Aziz Abdallah An Introductory Note on the Impact of Sidi al-Mukhrar al-Kunti (1729-1811) on West African Islam in the 18th and 19th Centuries – Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 6, No. 4, 1973.
Bivar, A.D. and HiskettM. ‘The Arabic Literature of Nigeria to 1804: A provisional account’ Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 25, 1962, pp. 118-35.
Bivar, A. D. translation ‘The Wathiiqah ahl al-Sudan’, Journal of African History, II, (2),
Boyd, Jean ‘The Contribution of Nana Asmau Fodio to the Jihadist Movement of Shehu dan Fodio from 1820-1865’. M. Phil thesis submitted to the Polytechnic of North London, 1982.
El-Masri, Fathi ‘Bayan Wujub al-Hijra ala l-Ibad’, Khartoum University Press
El-Masri, Fathi‘The Life of Shehu Usman Dan Fodio before the Jihad’, Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 2, 1962, p. 438.
Gwarzo, Hassan Ibrahim ‘The Life and Teachings of al-Maghili’, Thesis submitted to University of London, 1972. It is so far the most comprehensive study of the North African scholar.
El-Hajj, M.A. The Mahdist Tradition in Nigeria’. Ph.D. thesis submitted to Aḥmadu Belle University, Zaria, 1972, pp. 229-31 and 262-9.
Hiskett, Mervyn in ‘Material Related to the State of Learning Among the Fulani before their Jihad’ translation of Ida ann-Nuskh man akhadhtu anhu min al-shuyukh, edited and translated Bulletin of the School Oriental and African Studies 1957.
Hiskett, Mervyn translation of Tazyin al-Waraqat,
Hodgkin, Thomas ‘Usman Dan Fodio’, in Nigerian Magazine, 1960, p. 75
Hubbare, Alhaji Sayyidi Maude publihser of ‘Tanbiih at-Talabah alaa anna Allah Taʿaala Maruuf bil-fitrah’ by Shehu Usman
Hunwick, John ‘Aḥmad Baba and the Moroccan Invasion of the Sudan (1591)’ , in Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 2, 1962.
Johnston, Hugh ‘The Fulani Empire of Sokoto’, OUP, 1967
Journal of Historical Society of Nigeria,‘ A neglected theme of West African History: the Islamic Revolutions of the 19th Century’ 1961, pp. 175, 178-9
Kani, Ahmad critical edition of ‘Diya as-Siyaasat’ of ʿAbdullahi ibn Fodio (1981) also contains a copy of the Wasiya.
Kani, Ahmad ‘Between Theory and Practice: Changing Patterns in the Political Thought of the 19th Century Jihad Leaders in Hausaland’, Seminar Paper, Muslim Institute, 1983.
Malumfashi U.F.‘The Life and Ideas of Shaykh ʿUthman dan Fodio’, Being editing, translating and analysis of Rawd al-Jinan and al-Kashf wal Bayan
Last, Murray ‘The Sokoto Caliphate, Ibadan History Series’, 1977, pp. 33-4.
Martin, B.G. ‘Unbelief in the Western Sudan: ʿUthman dan Fodio’s Taʿliim al-Ikhwaan’. Middle Eastern Studies 4, 1967-8, p. 92.
Minna, M.T.M ‘Sulṭan Muhammad Bello and His Intellectual Contribution to the Sokoto Caliphate’, Ph.D., London, 1982;
Palmer, H. ‘An Early Fulani Conception of Islam’ in which is a translation of Shehu Usman’s Tanbiih al-Ikhwaan
Usman, Yusuf B. (ed.), ‘The Meaning of the Sokoto Jihad’, Studies in the History of the Sokoto Caliphate, pp. 10-13.
Usman, Yusuf (ed.), ‘A Contribution to the Biography of the Shaykh Usman, in ‘Studies of the History of the Sokoto Caliphate’, p. 469.
Usman, Yusuf ‘The Transformation of Katsina’, pp. 104-2
Said, Halil ‘Revolution and Reaction: The Fulani Jihad in Kano’
Tukun, M .‘Values and Public Affairs’, Ph.D. ABU, 1977;
Tukur, Mahmud ‘Values and Public Affairs: The Relevance of the Sokoto Caliphal Experience to the Transformation of the Nigerian Polity’. Ph.D. thesis submitted to Aḥmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1977.
Tukur, Mahmud ‘Values and Public Affairs’, pp. 239-48.
Smaldone, Joseph P. ‘Historical and Sociological Aspects of Warfare in Sokoto Caliphate’. Ph.D. thesis submitted to Northwestern University, 1970, pp. 223-4.
Willis, J.R.(ed.) ‘The Cultivators of Islam’, Frank Cass, 1979
Zahradeen, M.S .‘Abd Allah ibn Fodio’s Contributions to the Fulani Jihad in Nineteenth Century Hausaland’, Ph.D. thesis submitted to McGill University, 1976, p. 175
A number of these books have been translated by Shaykh Muhammad Shareef and are available From: Sankore’ Institute of Islamic African Studies International (SIIASI)
adress: https://siiasi.org
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