Medieval West Africa : views from Arab scholars and merchants

著者

• Levtzion, Nehemia
• Spaulding, Jay

書誌事項

Medieval West Africa : views from Arab scholars and merchants

edited by Nehemia Levtzion and Jay Spaulding

Markus Wiener Publishers, 2011, c2003

• : pbk.

注記

Includes index

Description based on 3rd printing, 2011

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Kingdoms arose during the early centuries of the Common Era across a wide region of West Africa. A rich source of information about West Africa is available in the Arabic sources written by geographers and chroniclers in the Muslim world between the 8th and the 15th centuries. In this volume are the actual primary sources upon which much modern knowledge about the kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, Kanem-Borno and their neighbors depends. Here is the story of the conversion of the western Sudan to Islam, as well as accounts of the famous medieval gold trade, testimonies about the pilgrimage of Mansa Musa, and insightful introductions to many other less familiar personalities, activities and events.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BC06377553
• ISBN:
  • 9781558763050
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Princeton, N.J.
• ページ数/冊数: xxxv, 126 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : DT476
  • DC21 : 966/.021
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Africa, West -- History -- To 1884 -- Sources
  • LCSH : Africa, West -- History -- To 1884