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Hazard, H. W. (ed.) / Volume III: The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
(1975)
XIII: Moslem North Africa, 1049-1394, pp. 457-485
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XIII MOSLEM NORTH AFRICA 1049—1394 Toward the end of the fourteenth Christian or eighth Islamic century, abu-Zaid ' Abd-ar-Rahman ibn-Muhammad, of the Banti Khaldun, snatched a few months from a remarkably full life to write a "Book of Examples," Kitãb al-'ibar. The latest date in the portion concerning his native North Africa falls in A.H. 796, or A.D. 1394, The principal source, Ibn-KhaldUn's Kitab al-'ibar, has been published in full (7 vols.) at Bulaq, A.H. 1284 (A.D. 1867/8, reprinted 1971); the North African portions (vols. 6—7), ed. MacGuckin de Slane as Histoire des Berbères (2 vols., Algiers, 1847—1851), were translated by de Slane, also as Histoire des Berbéres (4 vols., Algiers, 1852—1856; reprinted almost unaltered as "edited by Paul Casanova," Paris, 1925—1956, and again 1968—1969). For additional information, consult Carl Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Literatur (2nd ed., 2 vols., Leyden, 1943—1949, with 3 supplemental vols. [cited as sI, sII, sIII], Leyden, 1937—1942), II, 314, 679; sII, 342. The most important other chroniclers, in roughly chronological order, are the following; for each author the best edition and translation of his complete work or the relevant portion thereof will be cited, with reference to Brockelmann for further information: Al-Bakri (abu-'Ubaid ' Abd-Allãh ibn-'Abd-al-'Aziz), Kitab al-masalik wa-l-mamölik; North African portion ed. de Slane as Description de l'Afrique septentrionale (2nd ed., Algiers, 1910) and trans. de Slane (2nd ed., Algiers, 1913); both were reprinted together (Paris, 1965): Brockelmann, I, 627; sI, 875; sIll, 1242. Al-Idrisi (abu-'Abd-Allah Muhammad ibn-Muhammad), Nuzhat al-mushtaq ft ikhtiraq al-afaq; North African and Spanish portions ed. and trans. by Reinhart Dozy and Michael Jan de Goeje as Description de l'Afrique et de l'Espagne (Leyden, 1866): Brockelmann, I, 628;sI, 876; sIll, 1242. Anonymous, Kitãb al-istibsãr ft ' aja'ib al-amsar; North African portion ed. Alfred von Kremer as "Description de 1'Afrique...," Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Wien), Philosophisch.historische Classe, VIII (1852), 389— 428, and trans. Edmond Fagnan as "L'Afrique septentrionale au XIIe siècle ...," Recueil des notices et memoires de la Société archéologique de Constantine, XXXIII (1899): Brockelmann, sI, 879. As-Sam'ani (' Abd-al-Karim ibn-Muhammad), Kitab al-ansãb fi ma'rifat al-ashãb; selection ed. and trans. Evariste Levi-Provençal as "La Généalogie des Almohades et l'organisation du parti" in his Documents inédits d'histofre almohade (Paris, 1928), pp. 25—74: Brockelmann, 1,401; sI, 564. ' Abd-al-Wahid al-Marrakushi (abu-Muhammad. . . ibn-'A1i), Kitffb al-mu'jib fi talkhis akhbar al-Maghrib: ed. Dozy as The History of theAlmohades (2nd ed., Leyden, 1881;repr. 457
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