Corpus of early Arabic sources for West African history / translated by J.F.P. Hopkins ; edited and annotated by N. Levtzion & J.F.P. Hopkins

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Al-Khuwārizmī (Khw), d. after 232/846-7 -- Ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥakam (IAH), d. 257/871 -- Ibn Qutayba (IQ), wr. 266/879-80 -- Ibn Khurradādhbih (IKhr), wr. 272/885 -- Al-Balādhurī (Bl), d. c. 279/892 -- Al-Yaʻqūbī, Tārīkh (YbT), wr. 259/872-3 -- Al-Yaʻqūbī, Buldān (YbB), wr. 276/889-90 -- Al-Dīnawarī (Dn), d. 280s/890s -- Ibn Ṣaghīr (ISgh), wr. c. 290/903 -- Ibn al-Faqīh (IF), wr. after 290/903 -- Al-Hamdānī (Ham), d. 334/945 -- Al-Masʻudī (Mas), wr. 336/947 -- Akhbār al-zamān (Akh) -- Isḥaq b. al-Ḥusayn (IbH), wr. after 340/950 -- Al-Iṣṭakhrī (Ist), fl. 340/950 -- Ibn Ḥawqal (IH), wr. 378/988 -- Al-Muqaddasī (Muq), wr. 375-80/985-90 -- Ibn Abī Zayd (IAZd), d. 386/996 -- Al-Bīrūnī, Qānūn (BrQ), d. after 442/1050 -- Al-Bīrūnī, Jamāhir (BrJ) -- Al-Mālikī (Mal), wr. after 453/1061 -- Al-Bakrī (Bk), wr. 460/1068 -- Ibāḍī extracts (Ibd), wr. eleventh-twelfth centuries A.D. -- Al-Marwazī (Mar), d. after 514/1120 -- Al-Zuhri (Z), fl. 532/1137 -- ʻIyāḍ, Madārik (Mad), d. 544/1149 -- Al-Idrīsī (Id), 548/1154 -- Abū Ḥamid (AH), d. 565/1169 -- Benjamin of Tudela (Ben), fl. A.D. 1172 -- Kitāb al-Istibṣār (KI), wr. 587/1191 -- Al-Sharīshī (Sh), d. 619/1222 -- Ibn Ḥammād (IHm), wr. 617/1221 -- Al-Tādilī (Tad), wr. 617/1221 -- Ibn al-Athīr (IA), d. 630/1233 -- Ibn Khallikān (IKhall), wr. 672/1274 -- Yāqūt (Yt), wr. 621/1224 -- Al-Qazwīnī (Qz), wr. 674/1275 -- Ibn Saʻīd (IS), wr. 658/1286-7 -- Abū ʼl-Fidāʼ (AF), wr. 721/1321 -- Al-Dimashqī (Dm), d. 727/1327 -- Al-Tijānī (Tij), travelled 706/1306-708/1308 -- Ibn ʻIdhārī (II), fl. 712/1312 -- Mafākhir al-Barbar (Maf), wr. 712/1312 -- Ibn Abī Zarʻ (IAZ), d. 715/1315 -- Ibn al-Dawādārī (Dw), wr. 736/1335 -- Al-ʻUmarī, Masālik (UM), wr. 737-8/1337-8 -- Al-ʻUmarī, Taʻrīf (UT) -- Ibn Baṭṭūṭa (IB), wr. 756/1355 -- Ibn Kathīr (IK), d. 774/1372 -- Ibn al-Khaṭīb (IKht), d. 776/1375 -- Al-Ḥulal al-mawshiyya (Hl), wr. 783/1381 -- Ibn Khaldūn, Muqaddima (IKhM), d. 808/1406 -- Ibn Khaldūn, ʻIbar (IKhI) -- Al-Qalqashandī (Ql), d. 821/1418 -- Al-Maqrīzī, Tibr (MqT), d. 845/1441 -- Al-Maqrīzī, Khiṭaṭ (MqKh) -- Al-Maqrīzī, Sulūk (MqS) -- Ibn Ḥajar (IHj), d. 852/1449 -- Ibn Taghrī Birdī, Nujūm (ITN), d. 874/1470 -- Ibn Taghrī Birdī, Ḥawādith (ITH) -- Al-Sakhāwī (Sakh), d. 902/1497 -- Ibn Iyās (IIy), d. c. 930/1524 -- Ibn Mājid (IM), wr. 895/1489-90 -- Al-Shammākhī (Sham), d. 928/1522 -- Al-Maqqarī (Mqr), d. 1041/1632

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Date

2000

To 1884

Author

Hopkins, J. F. P

Levtzion, Nehemia

Type

Books

Sources

Physical description

xxii, 492 p. : maps ; 23 cm

Place

Africa, West

Topic

History

Record ID

siris_sil_689895

Usage

CC0