Timbuktu Chronicles
Timbuktu Chronicles is the collective name for a group of writings created in Timbuktu in the second half of the 17th century.{{sfn|Hale|2007|p=24}}{{sfn|Nobili|2018|p=201}}{{sfn|Moraes Farias|2008|p=95}} They form a distinct genre of taʾrīkh (history). There are three surviving works and a probable lost one.{{sfn|Moraes Farias|2008|p=95}}
- Tarikh al-Sudan, "History of the Sudan" (c. 1655), written by al-Saʿdi
- Tarikh al-fattash, "The Researcher's Chronicle" (late 17th century), also called the Tarikh Ibn al-Mukhtar ("Ibn al-Mukhtar's Chronicle"){{sfn|Nobili|2018|p=201}}
- Notice historique (between 1657 and 1669), an anonymous untitled text conventionally known by the title of the French translation{{sfn|Moraes Farias|2008|p=95}}
- Durar al-hisan fi akhbar baʿd muluk al-Sudan, "Pearls of Beauties Concerning What is Related About Some Kings of the Sudan", by Baba Goro, a lost work that probably belonged to the Timbuktu taʾrīkh genre.{{sfn|Moraes Farias|2008|p=95}}
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Bibliography
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- {{cite book|title=Griots and Griottes: Masters of Words and Music|author1-first=Thomas A.|author1-last=Hale|publisher=Indiana University Press|year=2007|isbn=9780253219619}}
- {{cite book|title=The Meanings of Timbuktu|authorlink=Paulo de Moraes Farias|first=Paulo F. de|last=Moraes Farias|editor1=Shamil Jeppie|editor2=Souleymane Bachir Diagne|publisher=HSRC Press|year=2008|chapter=Intellecutal Innovation and the Reinvention of the Sahel: The Seventeenth-Century Timbuktu Chronicles|pages=95–108|url=https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/handle/11427/2421/Meanings_Timbuktu.pdf}}
- {{cite book|title=Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past: Essays in Honour of Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias|editor1-first=Toby|editor1-last=Green|editor2-first=Benedetta|editor2-last=Rossi|publisher=Brill|year=2018|isbn=9789004380189|chapter=New Reinventions of the Sahel: Reflections on the Tārikh Genre in the Timbuktu Historiographical Production, Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries|author1-first=Mauro|author1-last=Nobili}}
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