Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith(English, Hardcover, Nobili Mauro)

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Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith(English, Hardcover, Nobili Mauro) is written by Nobili Mauro and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1108479502 (ISBN 10) and 9781108479509 (ISBN 13).

The Tarikh al-fattash is one of the most important and celebrated sources for the history of pre-colonial West Africa, yet it has confounded scholars for decades with its inconsistences and questions surrounding its authorship. In this study, Mauro Nobili examines and challenges existing theories on the chronicle, arguing that much of what we have presumed about the work is deeply flawed. Making extensive use of previously unpublished Arabic sources, Nobili demonstrates that the Tarikh al-fattash was in fact written in the nineteenth century by a Fulani scholar, Nu? b. al-?ahir, who modified pre-existing historiographical material as a political project in legitimation of the West African Islamic state known as the Caliphate of ?amdallahi and its founding leader A?mad Lobbo. Contextualizing its production within the broader development of the religious and political landscape of West Africa, this study represents a significant moment in the study of West African history and of the evolution of Arabic historical literature in Timbuktu and its surrounding regions.