تاريخ الفتاش (Timbuktu Chronicles 1493-1599)

Copyright © 2011 Christopher Wise
First Printing 2011

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Timbuktu, Mahmud Kati ibn Mutawakkil Kati, b. ca. 1468.
[Ta'rikh al-fattash. English]
The Timbuktu chronicles, 1493–1599 : English translation of the original works in Arabic by Al Hajj Mahmud Kati in Ta'rikh al fattash / edited by Christopher Wise ; translated by Christopher Wise and Hala Abu Taleb.

INTRODUCTION TO THE TA'RĪKH AL-FATTĀSH

"TA'RĪKH AL-FATTĀSH" OR "CHRONICLE OF THE SEEKER"

Ta'rīkh al-fattāsh