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Timbuktu Chronicles 1493-1599, The: Al Hajj Mahmud Kati's Tarikh at Fattash

ISBN-13: 9781592218097

Contributor(s): Christopher Wise

Subjects: African History

Publisher: Africa World Press

Publisher Imprint: Africa World Press

Publication Date: 24-08-2011

Format: Hardback

Availability: Out of stock

£34.95

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About the book

Some 500 years ago, Askiya Muhammad founded the Songhay Dynasty of the Askiyas, which flourished for more than a century in Sahelian West Africa. The Timbuktu-based scribe al hajj Mahmud Kati was a close friend of Askiya Mohammed - and the Tarikh al fattash gives an eyewitness account of his empire, told from the perspective of a key participant. Long valued as one of the most important historical documents of the African medieval world, Kati's account is also a literary achievement that is comparable to the writings of figures like Chaucer, Rabelais and Montaigne.

Timbuktu Chronicles 1493-1599, The: Al Hajj Mahmud Kati's Tarikh at Fattash

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