| Author/Contributor(s): | Mack, Beverly B ; Boyd, Jean |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| Date: | 05/22/2000 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
The fascinating life and times of Nana Asma'u (1793 - 1864), a West African woman who was a Muslim scholar and poet. As the daughter of the spiritual and political leader of the Sokoto community, Asma'u was a role model and teacher for other Muslim women as well as a scholar of Islam and a key advisor to her father as he waged a jihad to bring Islam to the population of what is now northwestern Nigeria.