Warfare in the Sokoto Caliphate: Historical and Sociological PerspectivesThe successful jihad of 1804 in Hausaland perhaps the most important Islamic revolution in West African history, with consequences still apparent in Nigeria today resulted in the establishment of the Sokoto Caliphate, the largest and most enduring West African polity in the nineteenth century. The book is a full length study of traditional Sudanic military history, and an authoritative analysis of warfare in its most prominent Islamic state. After a