Monica Van Beuskom noted Robinson's collection of translated
materials for the Dan Fodio jihad and mep notes that it is out of
print. What is in print now (and containing lots of translated
extracts) is Hiskett's *The Sword of Truth*. A second edition with a
new (and contraversial preface) was published in paper back by
Northwestern University Press in April 1994. It appeared in a series
on "Islam and Society in Africa". Here is the full list:
Northwestern University Press
Series: Islam and Society in Africa
General Editors: John Hunwick & Robert Launay
*Enigmatic Saint: Ahmad b. Idris and the Idrisi Tradition*, by R. S.
O'Fahey, 1990.
*Religion and National Integration in Africa: Islam, Christianity and
Politics in the Sudan and Nigeria*, edited by John O. Hunwick, 1991.
*Historical Discord in the Nile Valley*, by Gabriel Warburg, 1992.
*The Sufi Brotherhoods in the Sudan*, by Ali Salih Karrar,
introduction by R.S. O'Fahey, 1992.
*The Letters of Ahmad b. Idris*, edited, translated and annotated by
Einar Thomassen, Bernd Radtke, Rex S. O.Fahey, Ali Salih Karrar and
Albrecht Hofheinz, 1993.
*Assaulting with Words: Popular Discourse and the Bridle of
"Shari'ah"*, by Abdullah Ali Ibrahim, 1994.
*Holymen of the Blue Nile: the Making of an Arab Islamic Community in
the Nilotic Sudan, 1500-1850*, by Neil McHugh, 1994.
*The Sword of Truth*, by Mervyn Hiskett, second edition with a new
preface by the author, 1994. $19.95. Paper.
*An Islamic Alliance: 'Ali Dinar and the Sanusiyya, 1906-1916*,
edited and translated with an interpretive essay by Jay Spaulding and
Lidwien Kapteijns, 1994.
*Sufi and Scholar on the Desert Edge: the Heritage of Muhammad b. 'Ali
al-Sanusi*, by Knut S. Vikr, forthcoming.
Inquiries regarding any of these may be made to Business Manager,
Northwestern University Press, 625 Colfax St., Evanston, IL 60208.
Those interested in the Islamic factor in African history/Muslim societies
in Africa might also like to check out "Sudanic Africa" an annual journal
of sources, many of which are translations of documents etc from Arabic and
from African languages. You can get a preview of this (and a selection of
reviews, notes and communcations, through the Web. Go to:
http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/institutter/smi/sa/sahome.html