Probing the Theological Resources of a Seventeenth-Century tārīkh: the Tārīkh al-Sūdān and Ashʿarī kalām

Modern Western scholars, journalists, travellers, and colonial officials have shown an interest in Timbuktu’s famous seventeenth-century chronicles ever since they heard of them in the mid nineteenth-century. The three tārīkhs (chronicles) are the Tārīkh al-Sūdān, the so-called Tarīkh al-fattāsh, an...

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Main Author: Mathee, Mohamed Shahid (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Islamic Africa
Year: 2016, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 159-184
Further subjects:B Theology
B Historiography
B Ashʿarī kalām
B al-Saʿdī
B Songhay Empire
B seventeenth-century
B political motives
B Resources
B Timbuktu
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