11:30 - 13:00
The Timbuktu Chronicle Tradition
Oral session
Room: Arts - Lecture Room 1
Stream: Muslim Written Intellectual Tradition in Africa
Chair/s:
Bruce Hall
11:30 - 11:45
Tu-A31 Islamic Manuscripts 1-P-001
Timbuktu historical chronicles and the recycling of tradition
Paulo de Moraes Farias
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
11:45 - 12:00
Tu-A31 Islamic Manuscripts 1-P-002
From La Chronique Du Chercheur To The Tārīkh Ibn Al-Mukhtār And The Tārīkh Al-Fattāsh
Mauro Nobili
University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne, Urbana-Champagne, United States
12:00 - 12:15
Tu-A31 Islamic Manuscripts 1-P-003
“The opposing politics of two 20th century Timbuktu chronicles: the Kitab al-turjuman and the Jawāhir al-ḥisān fī aḫbār al-Sūdān”
Mohamed Mathee
University of Johannesburg, Roodepoort, South Africa