List of the Princes of Songhai: Tarikh al-Sudan (History of the Sudan)

Author: al-Sadi, AbdBinding: Kindle EditionFormat: Kindle eBookRelease Date: 21-02-2015Details: The “List of Princes of Songhai” is an excerpt from a 1900 French translation of the Tarikh al-Sudan or Tarikh es-Sudan (History of the Sudan). This was a historical chronicle written around 1655 in Arabic by a West African scholar named Abd al-Sadi (full name Abderrahman ben Abdallah ben ‘Imran ben ‘Amir es-Sadi). Al-Sadi was born in 1594 and probably died in the 1650s, sometime after 1655. During his lifetime al-Sadi worked as an administrator in the Arma-run state on the Niger Bend region in the modern-day Republic of Mali. He worked and lived in the city of Djenne, the Massina region, and the city of Timbuktu.Shortly before al-Sadi’s birth, a Moroccan army crossed the Sahara desert and defeated the army of the Songhai Empire at the Battle of Tondibi in 1591. The once-powerful Songhai Empire, which had ruled much of the modern-day West African nations of Mali and Niger, was destroyed