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  1. Arabic medieval inscriptions from the Republic of Mali : epigraphy, chronicles and Songhay-Tuāreg history

    Farias, P. F. de Moraes
    Oxford ; New York : Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2003.

    This analytical edition makes available a unique corpus of primary-source material and demonstrates its wide implications for African and Arabic studies. Through Arabic transciptions, English translations, line-drawing reconstructions, and plate illustrations, the volume catalogues the large number of eleventh-fifteenth century Arabic-Islamic inscriptions from the Republic of Mali - including the earliest datable writing from West Africa. Dr Moraes Farias uses this rich resource to reinterpret West African chronicles (including the Timbuktu Chronicle) and Tuareg and Songhay oral traditions. Challenging chauvinistic portrayals of the past, he demonstrates that the Tuareg and Songhay, peoples divided by civil war in the 1990s, in fact share a composite history. Crucial for our understanding of West African history, this volume also discusses a wide range of linguistic and literary issues, and contributes to current debates about the nature of epigraphic evidence.

  2. Heinrich Barth et l'Afrique

    Köln : Köppe, c2006.

  3. Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past : essays in honour of Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias

    Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

    Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past' offers a comprehensive assessment of new directions in the historiography of West Africa. With twenty-four chapters by leading researchers in the study of West African history and cultures, the volume examines the main trends in multiple fields including the critical interpretation of Arabic sources; new archaeological surveys of trans-Saharan trade; the discovery of sources in Latin America relating to pan-Atlantic histories; and the continuing analysis of oral histories. The volume is dedicated to Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, whose work inspired the intellectual reorientations discussed in its chapters and stands as the clearest formulation of the book?s central focus on the relationship between political conjunctures and the production of sources.Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past offers a comprehensive assessment of new directions in the historiography of West Africa. With twenty-four chapters by leading researchers in the study of West African history and cultures, the volume examines the main trends in multiple fields including the critical interpretation of Arabic sources; new archaeological surveys of trans-Saharan trade; the discovery of sources in Latin America relating to pan-Atlantic histories; and the continuing analysis of oral histories. The volume is dedicated to Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, whose work inspired the intellectual reorientations discussed in its chapters and stands as the clearest formulation of the book's central focus on the relationship between political conjunctures and the production of sources. Contributors are: Benjamin Acloque, Karin Barber, Seydou Camara, Mamadou Diawara, Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, Francois-Xavier Fauvelle, Nikolas Gestrich, Toby Green, Bruce Hall, Jan Jansen, Shamil Jeppie, Daouda Keita, Murray Last, Robin Law, Camille Lefebvre, Paul Lovejoy, Ghislaine Lydon, Carlos Magnavita, Sonja Magnavita, Kevin MacDonald, Thomas McCaskie, Ann McDougall, Daniela Moreau, Mauro Nobili, Insa Nolte, Abel-Wedoud Ould-Cheikh, Benedetta Rossi, Charles Stewart.

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