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    The Tarikh al-fattash is a West African chronicle that provides an account of the Songhay Empire from the reign of Sonni Ali (ruled 1464-1492) up to 1599...
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  • Timbuktu, al-Sa'di. It provides the single most important primary source for the history of the Songhay Empire. It and the Tarikh al-fattash, another 17th...
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    is unknown, but he still appeared to be a young man in 1324. The Tarikh al-fattash claims that Musa accidentally killed Kanku at some point prior to...
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  • chronicles, the Tarikh al-Sudan and the Tarikh al-fattash describe the history of the Songhay people and provide lists of their rulers. The Tarikh al-Sudan gives...
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  • of the Middle Niger region, similar to the Tarikh al-Sudan. The Soninke author of Ta'rikh al-Fattash, Ibn al-Mukhtar, recorded the oral tradition surrounding...
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  • Hadith Tārīkh-i amniyya, a history of the Dungan Revolt, the magnum opus of Musa Sayrami Tarikh ibn al-Athir Tarikh Baghdad Tarikh al-fattash Tarikh-i Hind...
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    Musa, in 1528. The Tarikh al-Sudan gives Askia Muhammad's name as Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al-Turi or al-Sillanki. The Tarikh al-Fattash gives his name as...
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    Kukiya is also mentioned in the other important chronicle, the Tarikh al-fattash. The Tarikh al-Sudan relates that the 15th ruler, Za Kusoy, converted to Islam...
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  • area. Kukiya is also mentioned in the other important chronicle, the Tarikh al-fattash.[citation needed] Za Alyaman is almost certainly a mythical figure...
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    Mahmud Kati (the Tarikh al-Fattash) and Abd al-Rahman as-Sadi (the Tarikh al-Sudan). Addressing the rulers' origin, the Tarikh al-Fattash offers three different...
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    is given in the Tarikh al-fattash. Kâti 1913, pp. 331–332 Kukiya is a town mentioned in the Tarikh al-sudan and the Tarikh al-fattash (as Koûkiya in the...
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  • meaning "He shall not be it" used by the sisters of Sunni Ali. The Tarikh al-fattash, in contrast, mentions that the title had been used previously. The...
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  • traditionally held to be the author of the West African chronicle Tarikh al-fattash, though the authorship is contested. Kati grew up in Kurmina but lived...
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    documents are the 17th century chronicles, al-Sadi's Tarikh al-Sudan and Ibn al-Mukhtar's Tarikh al-fattash. These provide information on the town at the...
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    trading routes were created through the desert. Manuscript C of the Tarikh al-fattash describes a community called the Bani Israeel that in 1402 CE existed...
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  • pronunciation by French translators of the Arabic texts Tarikh al-Sudan and Tarikh al-fattash which do not give the vowels. The name is pronounced Jawdar...
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  • recordings, transcriptions, translations, and performance. Tarikh al-Fattash and Tarikh al-Sudan are two important Timbuktu chronicles. By the late 1990s...
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  • al-Khwārizmī who wrote in the first half of the 9th century. The two 17th century Songhai chronicles, the Tarikh al-Sudan and the Tarikh al-Fattash,...
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    Nigeria, and many other areas. According to the 17th century Tarikh al-Fattash and the Tarikh al-Sudan, several Jewish communities existed as parts of the...
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  • written by al-Saʿdi Tarikh al-fattash, "The Researcher's Chronicle" (late 17th century), also called the Tarikh Ibn al-Mukhtar ("Ibn al-Mukhtar's Chronicle")...
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    tyrant, including the Tarikh al-fattash, which Mahmud Kati wrote. According to The Cambridge History of Africa, the Islamic historian Al-Sa'di expresses this...
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  • Sonni Muhammad Da'o, who appears in the kinglists of the Tarikh al-Sudan and Tarikh al-Fattash as the 10th Sonni ruler. His mother was from Fara, an area...
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  • location of the town. The much later 17th-century African chronicle, the Tarikh al-fattash, states that the Malian Empire was preceded by the Kayamagna dynasty...
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    Africa. Princeton University Press. p. 280. ISBN 978-0-691-17742-7. Tarīkh al-fattāsh makes this very clear, transitioning from the general to the particular...
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  • range from 18,000 cavalry and 9,700 foot soldiers (according to the Tarikh al-fattash), to 12,500 cavalry and 30,000 infantry, even up to 80,000 soldiers...
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    that Djenné was never conquered while the other major chronicle, the Tarikh al-fattash, describes the chief of Djenné as a humble vassal of the Malian emperor...
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  • descends from the famous Timbuktu historian Mahmud Kati, who wrote the Tarikh al-fattash history of the Songhai Empire. In his own words, Haïdara was expelled...
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  • December 1539, Ismail died.: 329  Tarikh al-fattash – Chronicle giving the history of the Songhay Empire Tarikh al-Sudan – Chronicle giving the history...
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    In Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith: Aḥmad Lobbo, the Tārīkh al-fattāsh and the Making of an Islamic State in West Africa. Cambridge University...
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  • to Daghestan. According to a West African Arabic record called the Tarikh al-fattash, in 1402 in Tiridirma near the Niger river lived a community of Jews...
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