“Urban by nature”: The Sokoto Jihadist approach to urban planning

Like other Islamic reform and state-building movements across the pre-colonial Sahel, the Sokoto Jihad of 1804 had started genuine urbanization processes with architectural references to Islamic ideals of inhabited space. But in the early Sokoto Empire, jihadist urban planning met with a Hausa envir...

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Main Author: Stephanie Zehnle
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Institut des Mondes Africains 2020-12-01
Series:Afriques
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/afriques/2993