
Author: Christopher Wise
Price: $30.00
Category:Books
Publication Date:2011-05-03T00:00:01Z
Pages:348
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:1592218091
ISBN:13:9781592218097
Some 500 years ago, Askiya Muhammad founded the Songhay Dynasty of the Askiyas, which flourished for more than a century in Sahelian West Africa. The Timbuktu-based scribe al hajj Mahmud Kati was a close friend of Askiya Mohammed – and the Tarikh al fattash gives an eyewitness account of his empire, told from the perspective of a key participant. Long valued as one of the most important historical documents of the African medieval world, Kati’s account is also a literary achievement that is comparable to the writings of figures like Chaucer, Rabelais and Montaigne.