Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sa‘dī's Ta'rīkh Al-sūdān down to 1613 and other Contemporary Documents by John Hunwick

Brill's Islamic History and Civilization #27

Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sa‘dī's Ta'rīkh Al-sūdān down to 1613 and other Contemporary Documents

John Hunwick

412 pages hardcover 1999

2 editions

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The principal text translated in this volume is the Ta'rīkh Al-sūdān of the seventeenth-century Timbuktu scholar 'Abd al-Raḥmān al-Sa'dī. Thirty chapters are included, dealing with the history of Timbuktu and Jenne, their scholars, and the politi...

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