Towards a New Study of the So-Called Tārīkh al-fattāsh
@article{Nobili2015TowardsAN, title={Towards a New Study of the So-Called Tārīkh al-fattāsh}, author={Mauro Nobili and Mohamed Shahid Mathee}, journal={History in Africa}, year={2015}, volume={42}, pages={37 - 73} }
Abstract This article advances a new theory about the composition of the chronicle generally referred to as Tārīkh al-fattāsh. The Tārīkh al-fattāsh, allegedly written in the sixteenth-seventeenth century, is one of the most famous chronicles on which scholars have relied for information about West Africa’s pre-colonial history. However, there are still many puzzling issues and unsolved problems associated with this work, as edited by Octave V. Houdas and Maurice Delafosse in the early…
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