Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5280648 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Reinhard Wieber |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1/4 |
| Pages | 143 |
| Publication date | 1982-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Corpus of early Arabic sources for West African history: Translated by J.F.P. Hopkins, J F P Hopkins, 1981 |
| Venue | Die Welt des Islams (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-2539 • E-ISSN: 1570-0607 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1569808 |
| OpenAlex | W2010252743 |
| Language | EN |
From the eighth century onwards, the Muslim townsfolk of North Africa were well aware that fifty stages away across the desert to the south lay a land inhabited by black people which was the source of gold, ivory and slaves. It was no mere rumour stemming from occasional journeys of special daring, as it had been in the time of Herodotus. For the Muslims, the black slaves were in their midst as labourers and soldiers, servants and concubines. And soon the passing caravans began to be swelled by black students and pilgrims, showing that the religion and civilization of Islam were spreading across the Sahara into the western and central Sudan
Ancient history · Arabic · Linguistics · African history and culture analysis · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Philosophy
Human subsistence and land use in sub-Saharan Africa, 1000 BC to AD 1500
Qu’importe le flacon pourvu qu’il y ait l’ivraie »
Looking through voids
Vernacular names for African millets and other minor cereals and their significance for agricultural history
Emergent complexity and political economy of the Houlouf polity in North Central Africa (1900 BCE-1800 CE)
The ‘Lost Caravan’ of Ma’den Ijafen Revisited
Marine Shell Working at Harlaa, Ethiopia, and the Implications for Red Sea Trade
The Archaeology of West Africa, ca. 800 BCE to 1500 CE
Elephants for Want of Towns”
Threats as a Communication Mechanism in Bilateral Christian–Muslim Relations
Remains of woody plants from Saouga, a medieval west African village
Plant use at an early Islamic merchant town in the West African Sahel
From stone to metal
Diversification, Intensification and Specialization
The archaeology of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa
Did Specialized Pastoralism Develop Differently in Africa than in the Near East? An Example from the West African Sahel
Historical archaeology in sub-Saharan Africa—A review
Le crachoir chinois du roi
Did They or Didn't They Invent It? Iron in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Northern Zanj, Demadim, Yamyam, Yam / Yamjam , Habasha / Ahabish , Zanj-Ahabish , and Zanj ed-Damadam – The Horn of Africa between the Ninth and Fifteenth Centuries
Exotic Plants of Western Africa
Refining gold with glass – an early Islamic technology at Tadmekka, Mali
Migrations, Ethnogenesis, and Settlement Dynamics
Ancient Humped Cattle in Africa
Igbo-Ukwu at 50
Evidence of an Eleventh-Century AD Cola Nitida Trade into the Middle Niger Region
New Luminescence and Radiocarbon Dates for Kanem-Borno Fired-Brick Elite Sites in Kanem, Chad
Cataloging Cowries
Igbo-Ukwu Textiles
Garumele Revisited
The early city in West Africa
Global Connections and Connected Communities in the African Past
The History of African Village Chickens
Garu Kime
Early Urban Clusters in China and Africa
Recent Literature in Discovery History
Power and permanence in precolonial Africa
Islam, archaeology and slavery in Africa
Archaeology, luxury and the exotic
Pawns on the Gold Coast
Islam in the Oral Traditions of Mali
Landmark Empires
The View from Awdaghust
Saharan Oceans and Bridges, Barriers and Divides in Africa's Historiographical Landscape
New light on the early Islamic West African gold trade
Metals and the Production and Reproduction of Society
Trade and commerce across Afro-Eurasia
Early polities of the Western Sudan
Segou, Slavery, and Sifinso
African Archaeology
From Muslims in America to American Muslims
The Political Organization of Traditional Gold Mining
Credit, Currencies, and Culture
El Imperio songay y su papel en la difusión del islam por África occidental
Ghana's Glass Beadmaking Arts in Transcultural Dialogues
Agency in artistry
Essai sur l'islamisation en Afrique occidentale
Murid Modernity
Sharpening the Boundaries of Community
Seeing Like Scholars
A True Picture? Colonial and Other Historical Archaeologies
Birds of Wasulu
Material Biographies
Gao and Igbo-Ukwu
"Origin of the Yoruba and "The Lost Tribes of Israel
Hunting on the margins of medieval West African states
Practical knowledge and politics of encounter along the Lower Falémé River, Senegambia ( c. AD 1500–1925)
Excavating Essouk-Tadmakka (Mali)
Early Kanem-Borno fired brick élite locations in Kanem, Chad
Those who were bound together
The least of their inhabited villages are fortified
Cowries in the archaeology of West Africa
Revisiting site history and regional interaction at the Dia settlement mound complex, Mali
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