Tarikh Ibn al-Mukhtar
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.In the pages of this chronicle, which was copied from a seventeenth-century original, al-Mukhtar advocates for the reestablishment of an independent polity in the Songhay region through reconciliation between the local descendants of the Moroccan conquerors and their former Songhay subjects. Like the Tarikh al-Sudan, this text is concerned with the region’s legacy and invokes ancient Mali as one of the world’s great states.
Artwork Details
- Title: Tarikh Ibn al-Mukhtar
- Author: Tarikh Ibn al-Mukhtar
- Date: Before 1911
- Geography: Mali, Timbuktu
- Medium: Manuscript on paper
- Dimensions: H. 6 3/4 × W. 8 7/8 in. (171.5 × 226 mm)
- Classifications: Paper-Documents, Manuscripts
- Credit Line: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris (Arabe 6651)
- Curatorial Department: The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing