Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire : Al-Saʻdi's Taʼrīkh al-Sūdān down to 1613, and other contemporary documents
ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd Allāh Saʻdī (Author), John O. Hunwick (Translator, Editor)
The principal text translated in this volume is the Ta'rikh al-sudan of the seventeenth-century Timbuktu scholar 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di. 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 'Ali (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
Print Book, English, 1999
Brill, Leiden, 1999