Nehemia Levtzion and J. F. P. Hopkins edited this Cambridge University Press collection of early Arabic language primary sources on West African history in English translation, covering the Mali Empire and the spread of Islam and its orders across the region. Its strength is that it is a standard scholarly compilation making otherwise scattered and often hard to access medieval Arabic accounts available together with scholarly framing, edited by recognized specialists. Its limit is that it is a translated primary source compilation rather than a synthesized general history, so a claim needing an overall narrative account of West African history needs a separate historical source drawing on these sources.
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Published by Cambridge University Press as an edited scholarly collection of translated Arabic source material, assembled and annotated by named academic editors, peer reviewed university press scholarship. NotesA standard scholarly edited collection of early Arabic-language primary sources on West African history in translation, covering the Mali Empire and the spread of Islam and its orders in the region. Use for established historical facts drawn from these early Arabic accounts of West Africa; a translated primary-source compilation with scholarly framing, not itself a general history.
Citation
AuthorNehemia Levtzion and J. F. P. Hopkins (eds.)
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication Year1981
Source TypeEdited collection
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Associated With
This source names Mali directly: "in English translation, covering the Mali Empire and the spread of Islam and its orders across the region."
Claims Backed By This Source (41 claims)
This source backs 41 claims across the atlas. As facts: 18 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 11 holds, 2 connected. Plus 8 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Articles, 9 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 connected, 2 general references.
- Empires & Polities, 8 claims: 3 well-attested, 4 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Spread Events, 8 claims: 2 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Religious Orders, 5 claims: 2 holds, 1 connected, 2 general references.
- Schools of Religious Law, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Regions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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