Overview
Region
West Africa
Mali
Era
Pre-colonial
Language
Arabic
Genre
Chronicle
About This Work
A seventeenth-century Timbuktu chronicle recounting the history of Mali, Songhay, Islamic scholarship, political succession, and urban life in the Niger bend.
Literary Significance
Core source for the written historical tradition of Timbuktu and the western Sahel.
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