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Tarikh Ibn al-Mukhtar

Author Tarikh Ibn al-Mukhtar

Before 1911

Not on view

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.

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Tarikh Ibn al-Mukhtar, Tarikh Ibn al-Mukhtar, Manuscript on paper

Tarikh Ibn al-Mukhtar, Tarikh Ibn al-Mukhtar, Manuscript on paper

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Bibliothèque Nationale de France

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)

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