The Tarikh al-fattash is one of the most important and celebrated
sources for the history of pre-colonial West Africa, yet it has
confounded scholars for decades with its inconsistences and
questions surrounding its authorship. In this study, Mauro Nobili
examines and challenges existing theories on the chronicle, arguing
that much of what we have presumed about the work is deeply flawed.
Making extensive use of previously unpublished Arabic sources,
Nobili demonstrates that the Tarikh al-fattash was in fact written
in the nineteenth century by a Fulani scholar, Nuh b. al-Tahir, who
modified pre-existing historiographical material as a political
project in legitimation of the West African Islamic state known as
the Caliphate of Hamdallahi and its founding leader Ahmad Lobbo.
Contextualizing its production within the broader development of
the religious and political landscape of West Africa, this study
represents a significant moment in the study of West African
history and of the evolution of Arabic historical literature in
Timbuktu and its surrounding regions.
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