Chronicles from Gonja: A Tradition of West African Muslim Historiography

by Ivor Wilks, Nehemia Levtzion, Bruce M Haight

The old kingdom of Gonja, founded by immigrant horsemen of Malian origins in the mid-sixteenth century, lies in the north of the Republic of Ghana. Historians of Gonja are fortunate in having access to chronicles of local authorship, written in Arabic. This book traces the development of that historiographical tradition and shows that by the early eighteenth century scholars in Gonja were not only maintaining annals but were also committing to writing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521260418
• ISBN13: 9780521260411
• Release Date: March 1987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"