Un État soudanais médiéval inconnu : le royaume de Zāfūn(u).

Lewicki, Tadeusz

doi:10.3406/cea.1971.2781

cea

1971

DOI: 10.3406/cea.1971.2781

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Un État soudanais médiéval inconnu : le royaume de Zāfūn(u).

Tadeusz Lewicki¹

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“…Lewickl remarks that Ghana was so disturbed by the conquest of 1076, and the conversion that "meme l'aide militaire que leur apporterent les Almoravides n'y pouvait pas grandchose." 29 Cuoq observes that the fact that the region of Silla and Tadimakka became Muslim with the help of the Almoravids confirms the hypothesis that Ghana was itself Islamized at the time of the Almoravid rule after the conquest. 30 Both these reflections seem to stem directly from an assumption that there was a conquest; neither appears clearly in the passage itself though.…”

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The Conquest that Never was: Ghana and the Almoravids, 1076. I. The External Arabic Sources

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Fisher

1982

Hist. Afr.

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We first conceived of this study several years ago, when our respective lines of research seemed to some extent to converge on the period of the decline of ancient Ghana. It has proved a more complex matter than we imagined, or than the deceptively simple title above might suggest--partly because it is often more difficult to prove that something did not happen than that it did. We have had to divide our analysis into two parts. First we examine the external written sources for the Almoravid conquest of Ghana. Our work in this respect has been immensely facilitated by the appearance in 1975 of Cuoq's Recueil des sources arabes, which in some sense provides the infrastructure for our argument. We have also had the invaluable privilege of seeing in proof Hopkins' and Levtzion's Corpus of early Arabic sources. In the second half of our study, it will be the turn of internal sources, mainly oral traditions. We use the terms external and internal advisedly, since the simple distinction between written sources and oral traditions is too artificial: an oral tradition was an oral tradition, whether written down in Arabic in the Middle Ages or in French in this century, and a great deal of the information in both parts of our article must have started as oral tradition.Putting it very bluntly, we have discovered no sources, whether external or internal, which unambiguously point to such a conquest. A handful of sources suggest some link between the rise of the Almoravids and the decline of Ghana, but with a puzzling vagueness--a vagueness which decreases as the number of centuries between the alleged event, and the report of it increases.

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The Conquest that Never was: Ghana and the Almoravids, 1076. I. The External Arabic Sources

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Fisher

1982

Hist. Afr.

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Farias

1974

J. Afr. Hist.

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Speculum Themed Issue: “Race, Race-Thinking, and Identity in the Global Middle Ages”

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2024

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Un État soudanais médiéval inconnu : le royaume de Zāfūn(u).

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The Conquest that Never was: Ghana and the Almoravids, 1076. I. The External Arabic Sources

The Conquest that Never was: Ghana and the Almoravids, 1076. I. The External Arabic Sources

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Speculum Themed Issue: “Race, Race-Thinking, and Identity in the Global Middle Ages”

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