Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sa’Di’s Ta’Rikh Al-Sudan Down to 1613 and Other Contemporary Documents (Islamic History and Civilization)

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The principal text translated on this volume is the Ta’rīkh Al-sūdān of the seventeenth-century Timbuktu scholar ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Sa’dī. Thirty chapters are included, coping with the history of Timbuktu and Jenne, their scholars, and the political history of the Songhay empire from the reign of Sunni ‘Alī (1464-1492) through Moroccan conquest of Songhay in 1591 and all the way down to the year 1613 when the Pashalik of Timbuktu turned into an autonomous ruling institution within the Middle Niger region. The year 1613 also marked the effective end of Songhay resistance. The opposite latest documents included are a brand new English translation of Leo Africanus’s description of West Africa, some letters in the case of Sa’dīan diplomacy and conquests within the Sahara and Sahel, al-Ifrānī’s account of Sa’dīan conquest of Songhay, and an account of this expedition by an anonymous Spaniard. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for main points.

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