The Golden Trade of the Moors: West African Kingdoms in the Fourteenth Century

✍ Scribed by E.W. Bovill; Robin Hallett

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 327
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"This book is the liveliest account of African history ever written, covering over [one] thousand years of trans-Saharan trade. "Finely written and researched. ... This edition will no doubt whet the appetites of a fresh generation of scholars and students for greater knowledge of parts of Africa still surprisingly little-known to the outside world." -- Journal of Islamic Studies "A unique source book." - The New York Times "Utterly enthralling ... splendidly romantic." -- The New Yorker

✦ Table of Contents

Preface to First Edition
Contents
Maps
Introduction
AFRICA ANTIQUA
1 Arid Nurse of Lions
2 Carbuncles and Gold
3 Romans and Garamantes
SAHARA AND SUDAN
4 The Tuareg and Other Peoples of the Sahara
5 Peoples of the Sudan
6 The Arabs
MEDIEVAL EMPIRES
7 The Almoravids
8 The Gold of Ghana
9 Mansa Musa of Mali
10 Ibn Battuta: A Fourteenth Century Traveller in the Sudan
THE GOLDEN TRADE
11 The Crescent and the Cross
12 The Quest for Gold
13 The Discovery of Guinea
14 Wangara
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SONGHAI EMPIRE
15 The Songhai
16 Leo Africanus: an Early Sixteenth-Century Traveller in the Sudan
17 Mulai Ahmad al-Mansur
18 Taghaza
19 The Desert Army
20 The Invasion of the Sudan
21 The Fall of Songhai
22 Adh-Dhahabi
NINETEENTH-CENTURY REVOLUTIONS
23 The European Penetration of the Interior
24 Bornu, Hausa, and the Fulani Empire of Sokoto
25 The Last of the Caravans
References
Select Bibliography
Index