Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sa'dī's Ta'rīkh Al-Sūdān Down to 1613 and Other Contemporary Documents

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-90-04-11207-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 984 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

The principal text translated in this volume is the 'Ta’rÄ«kh Al-sÅ«dÄn' of the seventeenth-century Timbuktu scholar ‘Abd al-RahÌ£mÄn al-Sa‘dÄ«. Thirty chapters are included, dealing with the history of Timbuktu and Jenne, their scholars, and the political history of the Songhay empire from the reign of Sunni ‘AlÄ« (1464-1492) through Moroccan conquest of Songhay in 1591 and down to the year 1613 when the Pashalik of Timbuktu became an autonomous ruling institution in the Middle Niger region. The year 1613 also marked the effective end of Songhay resistance. The other contemporary documents included are a new English translation of Leo Africanus's description of West Africa, some letters relating to Sa‘dÄ«an diplomacy and conquests in the Sahara and Sahel, al-IfrÄnÄ«'s account of Sa‘dÄ«an conquest of Songhay, and an account of this expedition by an anonymous Spaniard.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Hunwick, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

John Hunwick, Ph.D. (1974) in Islamic Studies, University of London, is Professor of History and Professor of Religion at Northwestern University. His publications include Shar‘ia in Songhay (Oxford, 1985) and Arabic Literature of Africa, Vol. II The Writings of Central Sudanic Africa (Brill, 1995)