Timbuktu Chronicles is the collective name for a group of writings created in
Timbuktu
Timbuktu ( ; ; Koyra Chiini: ; ) is an ancient city in Mali, situated north of the Niger River. It is the capital of the Tombouctou Region, one of the eight administrative regions of Mali, having a population of 32,460 in the 2018 census.
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in the second half of the 17th century. They form a distinct genre of ''
taʾrīkh
Tarikh () is an Arabic word meaning "date, chronology, era", whence by extension "annals, history, historiography". It is also used in New Persian, Persian, Urdu, Bengali language, Bengali and the Turkic languages. It is found in the title of many ...
'' (history). There are three surviving works and a probable lost one.
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Tarikh al-Sudan
The ''Tarikh al-Sudan'' ( ''Tārīkh as-Sūdān''; also ''Tarikh es-Sudan'', "History of the Sudan") is a West African chronicle written in Arabic in around 1655 by the chronicler of Timbuktu, al-Sa'di. It provides the single most important primary ...
'', "History of the Sudan" (c. 1655), written by al-Saʿdi
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Tarikh al-fattash
The ''Tarikh al-fattash'' is a West African chronicle that provides an account of the Songhai Empire from the reign of Sunni Ali (ruled 1464-1492) up to 1599 with a few references to events in the following century. The chronicle also mentions t ...
'', "The Researcher's Chronicle" (late 17th century), also called the ''Tarikh Ibn al-Mukhtar'' ("Ibn al-Mukhtar's Chronicle")
*''Notice historique'' (between 1657 and 1669), an anonymous untitled text conventionally known by the title of the French translation
*''Durar al-hisan fi akhbar baʿd muluk al-Sudan'', "Pearls of Beauties Concerning What is Related About Some Kings of the Sudan", by Baba Goro, a lost work that probably belonged to the Timbuktu ''taʾrīkh'' genre.
See also
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Timbuktu Manuscripts
Timbuktu Manuscripts, or Tombouctou Manuscripts, is a blanket term for the large number of historically significant manuscripts that have been preserved for centuries in private households in Timbuktu, a city in northern Mali. The collections i ...
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History of Timbuktu
History of West Africa
African chronicles
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