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Timbuktu : the Sahara's fabled city of gold /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: De Villiers, Marq
Other Authors: Hirtle, Sheila
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Walker : 2007.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
Subjects:
Tombouctou (Mali) > History.
Tombouctou (Mali) > Social life and customs.
Table of Contents:
  • Dreaming spires of gold, under the desert sun
  • The founder, the founding and the legends
  • The city, its site and its neighborhood
  • The Niger's course and meaning
  • The people of the region
  • Precursors: the empires of the sun
  • The coming of the Arabs
  • Mansa Musa and the first golden age of Timbuktu
  • The First Tuareg interregnum
  • The coming of the Songhai
  • The rise of Askia al=hajj Mohamed and the second golden age
  • The underpinnings of wealth
  • Travelers' tales
  • Life and learning in the city of gold
  • The second golden age and the intellectual tradition
  • The end of the Askias
  • The coming of the Moroccans
  • The long march and the Pasha's conquest of Timbuktu
  • The long decline
  • The coming of Jihad
  • Finally, the Europeans
  • And now?
  • Appendix 1: Commonly used tales
  • Appendix 2: Lineages
  • Appendix 3: Glossary of tribes and cultures
  • Appendix 4: Who was who.