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Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire
Al-SaâdÄ«'s TaârÄ«kh Al-sÅ«dÄn down to 1613 and other Contemporary Documents
Series: - Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 27
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The principal text translated in this volume is the TaârÄ«kh Al-sÅ«dÄn of the seventeenth-century Timbuktu scholar âAbd al-RahÌ£mÄn al-SaâdÄ«. 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 âAlÄ« (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 SaâdÄ«an diplomacy and conquests in the Sahara and Sahel, al-IfrÄnÄ«'s account of SaâdÄ«an conquest of Songhay, and an account of this expedition by an anonymous Spaniard.
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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 SharâÄ«a in Songhay (Oxford, 1985) and Arabic Literature of Africa, Vol. II The Writings of Central Sudanic Africa (Brill, 1995)
'This book provides a wealth of information on pre-modern West Africa, particularly on the Sonhay empire of the Niger river region and on the conquest of that empire by the Moroccan Sa'di dynasty during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.'
Stephen Cory, Religious Studies Review, 2000.
'â¦Hunwick shares the rich data he has been able to accumulate during 40 years of intense researchâ¦it opens up new horizons for future generations of Islamicists and Africanists.'
Fatima Harrak, The Journal of North African Studies, 2001.
Stephen Cory, Religious Studies Review, 2000.
'â¦Hunwick shares the rich data he has been able to accumulate during 40 years of intense researchâ¦it opens up new horizons for future generations of Islamicists and Africanists.'
Fatima Harrak, The Journal of North African Studies, 2001.
All those interested in centralised states in pre-colonial Africa, Islamic scholarship, the history of Timbuktu, and the history of the Western bilÄd al-sÅ«dÄn in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.