The Timbuktu Chronicles, 1493-1599

by Mahmud Kuti Ibn Mutaw Timbukti and Christopher Wise

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 Long valued as one of the most important historical documents of the African medieval world, Kati's account...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592218091
• ISBN13: 9781592218097
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.