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Author(s): Nehemia Levtzion (editor) & Jay Spalding (editor)
ISBN(s): 9781558763050, 1558763058
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 7.41 MB
Year: 2002
Language: english
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ISBN 10:  ‎1558763058 

ISBN 13:  978-1558763050 ‎

Author: Nehemia Levtzion, Jay Spalding 

This book tells the story of West Africa south of the Sahara from the ninth to the fourteenth century from the viewpoint of Arab geographers, historians, and travelers. The first reports in written Arabic sources deal with urban west African centers from the seventh century. The growth of the trans-Saharan trade and the process of Islamization enriched outsiders’ knowledge about “the lands of the blacks.” Geographers such as al-Bakri and al-Idrisi provided the most accurate descriptions, including maps of the region. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Ghana converted to Islam and encyclopedists compiled substantial material on the region. The best-known Arab traveler, Ibn Battuta, and the eminent historian Ibn Khaldun provided the most detailed and comprehensive first-hand information about West Africa in the fourteenth century.

Table of contents: 

  1. Al-Yaqubi

  2. Ibn Hawqal

  3. Al-Muhallabi

  4. Al-Bakri

  5. Al-Zuhri

  6. Al-Idrisi

  7. Al-Sarakhsi

  8. Ruby

  9. Ibn Sa’id

  10. Ibn al-Khatib

  11. Al-‘Umari

  12. Ibn Battuta

  13. Ibn Khaldun

  14. Al-Qalqashandi

  15. Al-Khabar ‘an ajnas al-Sudan, attributed to al-Maqrizi

  16. Al-Maqqari

  17. Ibn al-Dawadari

  18. Ibn Kathir

  19. Al-Maqrizi

  20. Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqlani

  21. Ibn Taghri Birdi

  22. Ibn Iyas

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