Title: The sword of truth ;
Authors: Hiskett, M.
Date: 1973
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Physical description: xxii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language: English
LC classification: D
Abstract: "In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centures an Islamic revolutionary movement arose in Hausaland (now part of northern Nigeria) . . . [and] the history of Hausaland, the life of the Shehu and his community, and the rise of the Sokoto caliphate all took place against the background of world Islam.".
Subject headings (LCSH): Fulani Empire.; Usuman dan Fodio, 1754-1817.