Medieval West Africa: Views from Arab Scholars and Merchants

✍ Scribed by Nehemia Levtzion (editor), Jay Spalding (editor)

Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 161
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In this volume are English translations of primary sources upon which much modern knowledge about the kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, Kanem-Borno, and their neighbors depends. Here is the story of the conversion of the western Sudan to Islam, as well as accounts of the famous medieval gold trade, testimonies about the pilgrimage of Mansa Musa, and insightful introductions to many other less familiar personalities, activities, and events.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Subjectivity and medieval Arabic adab

📁 Subjectivity and medieval Arabic adab

✍ Kaufmann, Kathryn Scott 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 University of California 🌐 English

Adab works of the classical Arabic tradition claim to form the person; hence they resonate with contemporary theoretical interest in the construction of subjectivity, or the self. The early adab works of 'Abdallah Ibn al-Muqaffa' (d. 757 CE) construct a vulnerable subjectivity that requires protecti

Muhammad and the Supernatural: Medieval

📁 Muhammad and the Supernatural: Medieval Arab Views

✍ Rebecca Williams 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

Muhammad and the Supernatural: Medieval Arab Views examines the element of the supernatural (or miracle stories) in the life of the Prophet Muhammad as depicted in two genres: prophetic biography (sīra) and Qur'ān exegesis (tafsīr).

Arabic-Islamic views of the Latin West :

📁 Arabic-Islamic views of the Latin West : tracing the emergence of medieval Europe

✍ Daniel G. König 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

The author offers an insight into how the Arabic-Islamic world perceived medieval Western Europe, refuting previous claims that the Muslim world regarded Western Europe as a cultural backwater, instead arguing for the presence of cultural and information flows between the two very different societie

African Dominion: A New History of Empir

📁 African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa

✍ Michael A. Gomez 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Princeton University Press 🌐 English

<b>A groundbreaking history that puts early and medieval West Africa in a global context</b><br /><br />Pick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book, the first on this period of the region's history

African Dominion: A New History of Empir

📁 African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa

✍ Michael A. Gomez 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Princeton University Press 🌐 English

African dominion: a new history of empir

📁 African dominion: a new history of empire in early and medieval West Africa

✍ Gomez, Michael A 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Princeton University Press 🌐 English

This pioneering book, the first on this period of the region's history in a generation, tells a different story. Interweaving political and social history and drawing on a rich array of sources, including Arabic manuscripts, oral histories, and recent archaeological findings, Michael Gomez unveils a