Jean Boyd
The Caliph's Sister: Nana Asma'u 1793-1865:
teacher, poet and Islamic leader

London. Frank Cass & Co. 1989. 165 p.

List of Illustrations

1. A poem by the Shehu dated 1789
2. Prayer beads: used as an aid to meditation (zikr)
3. A woman from western Sokoto
4. The leaf of the faru tree
5. Ta' Allah, the present Inna of Gobir
6. Riding an ox
7. An archer
8. A mounted drummer
9. A line from Sonnore Gidado
10. Carved calabashes
11. Hoeing a furrow
12. A giginya tree
13. A guinea-com head
14. Some verses from the poem Habbat Hakika
15. The kuge (ceremonial rattle) of Gobir
16. The pare (ceremonial trumpet) formerly of Gobir, now of Sokoto
17. A canoe ferry
18. A group of scholars
19. Poem by Asma'u
20. Poem by Bello
21. A Tuareg camel saddle
22. Bello's words about his mother
23. Asma'u's translation of Bello's words
24. Datura, a herb used to induce hallucinations
25. A Tuareg girl
26. A Hausa girl carrying her baby on her back
27. The Inna dressed as a man
28. The sword captured by Inna Yar Bukuma
29. A woman pounding corn
30. A woman spinning thread
31. The turban as worn by men and hajis
32. A Fulani girl
33. A tadirish or book cover for manuscripts
34. Dye-pits
35. A Gobir knife with a fine leather sheath
36. & 37. Lily-trotter and Open-bill (birds common near Wurno)
37. A camel drummer
38. A Bororoje (non-Muslim) Fulani
39. A Tuareg
40. An artist's impression of Muhammad Bello
41. A spear held by the present Waziri's helper, Shehu Cacaka
42. A goriba palm tree
43. The pattern of Gidado's and Asma'u's work
44. A maroki (praise-singer) who makes a living by panegyrizing patrons
45. A quotation from Muhammad Bello used on a present-day greeting card
46. The entrance to a large house
47. An inkpot and pen
48. A girl on a donkey
49. The genealogy of the jaji of Tsehe village
50. A Fulani woman
51. Ibrahim Dabo's Qur'an
52. Asma'u's poem on Dan Mari
53. A Saharan shield
54. The algaita (horn)
55. A baobab tree
56. A white gudale bull
57. The flower of the maje tree
58. Asma'u's poem modelled on her father's
59. Irrigation
60. Asma'u's poem Bi Yalli
61. An amulet containing a verse of the Qur'an
62. A richly dressed horseman
63. The room called amini at Dan Yalli's house in Yabo
64. The badge of Nana Day Secondary School, Sokoto, 1984
65. Women yan-taru