The beautiful manuscript of the Timbuktu Chronicle, Tarikh al-Fattash
Added 2019-08-29 10:28:37 +0000 UTCThe Tarikh al-fattash is one of the main historical sources I use in episode 7, and this is what the document actually looks like.
It's a West African chronicle written in Arabic in the second half of the 17th century. It provides an account of the Songhai Empire from the reign of Sonni Ali (ruled 1464-1492) up to 1599 with a few references to events in the following century. The chronicle also mentions the earlier Mali Empire. It and the Tarikh al-Sudan, another 17th century chronicle giving a history of Songhai, are together known as the Timbuktu Chronicles.
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Again my heart is broken with all the burning and destruction of books and documents.
You too can be a nice person
2021-07-03 19:41:22 +0000 UTC
