History

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Tarikh al-Sudan

Contents 10 tracks · all 38 chapters

1. 01Translator's IntroductionIntroduction25 min
2. 02The Kings of Songhai, the Sonni Dynasty and MaliChapters I–III24 min
3. 03Djenné, Timbuktu and the TuaregChapters IV–VIII39 min
4. 04The Scholars of Timbuktu, Sonni Ali and the AskiasChapters IX–XVI2 hr 59 min
5. 05Askia DaoudChapter XVII32 min
6. 06Askia El-Hadj and Askia Mohammed BanoChapters XVIII–XIX22 min
7. 07The Moroccan Invasion and the PashasChapters XX–XXXII3 hr 52 min
8. 08Pasha Ali ben Abdelkader and the Years 1612–1633Chapters XXXIII–XXXIV34 min
9. 09The Pashas of TimbuktuChapter XXXIV, continued1 hr 21 min
10. 10The Masina Expedition and the Last Years, to 1656Chapters XXXV–XXXVIII1 hr 26 min

Written in Timbuktu around 1655 by the scholar Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di, this is one of the great chronicles of West Africa. It tells the story of the Songhai empire from its first kings to the Askias, the pilgrimage of Mali's Kankan Musa, the scholars of Djenné and Timbuktu, and the Moroccan invasion of 1591 and the pashas who ruled after it.

Our English translation was made from the French edition of Octave Houdas (Paris, 1900), which is in the public domain. Our recording is a new, original production. The index of names is not read.