|
Showing 1 - 11 of
11 matches in All Departments
First published in 1814, this is an acount "Compiled from
Miscellaneous Observations Made During a Long Residence in, and
Various Journeys Through, these Countries. To which is Added An
Account of Shipwrecks on the Western Coast of Africa and an
Interesting Account of Timbuctoo."
Title: An account of the Empire of Marocco and the Districts of
Suse and Tafilelt. ... To which is added an account of Shipwrecks
on the Western Coast of Africa and an interesting account of
Timbuctoo ... Second edition, corrected ... and considerably
enlarged. Copious MS. notes and additions by the author and
others].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL
HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library
digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material
that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include
health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology,
culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and
social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Jackson, James Grey;
1814. 4 . 10095.i.23.
Title: An Account of the Empire of Marocco, and the district of
Suse; ... to which is added, an accurate and interesting account of
Timbuctoo, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British
Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes
material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world.
Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture,
environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry,
mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was
compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic
record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool
in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library
Jackson, James Grey; 1809. 4 . 984.f.13.
Title: An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa from oral communications]
... by El Hage Abd Salam Shabeeny. With notes. To which is added,
Letters descriptive of travels through West and South Barbary and
across the mountains of Atlas ... Fragments, notes and anecdotes,
etc. By J. G. J.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British
Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal
narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian
travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel
guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the
Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++The
below data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++
British Library Jackson, James Grey; 1820. 8 . 1047.g.15.
Title: An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa from oral communications]
... by El Hage Abd Salam Shabeeny. With notes. To which is added,
Letters descriptive of travels through West and South Barbary and
across the mountains of Atlas ... Fragments, notes and anecdotes,
etc. By J. G. J.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British
Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal
narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian
travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel
guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the
Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++The
below data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++
British Library Jackson, James Grey; 1820. 8 . 1047.g.15.
AN ACCOUNT OF TIMBUCTOO AND HOUSA, TERRITORIES IN THE INTERIOR OF
Africa, By; EL HAGE ABD SALAM SHABEENY; WITH NOTES, CRITICAL AND
EXPLANATORY. TO WHICH IS ADDED, LETTERS DESCRIPTIVE OF TRAVELS
THROUGH WEST AND SOUTH BARBARY, AND ACROSS THE MOUNTAIN'S OF ATLAS;
ALSO, FRAGMENTS, NOTES, AND ANECDOTES; SPECIMENS OF THE ARABIC
EPISTOLARY STYLE Roughly 250 years after Leo Africanus' visit to
Timbuktu, the city had seen many rulers. The end of the 18th
century saw the grip of the Moroccon rulers on the city wane,
resulting in a period of unstable government by quickly changing
tribes. During the rule of one of those tribes, the Hausa, a 14
year old child from Tetouan accompanied his father on a visit to
Timbuktu. Growing up a merchant, he was captured and eventually
brought to England. Shabeni, or Asseed El Hage Abd Salam Shabeeny
stayed in Timbuktu for three years before moving to Housa. Two
years later, he returned to Timbuctoo to live there for another
seven years - one of a population that was even centuries after its
peak and excluding slaves, double the size of the 21st century
town. By the time Shabeni was 27, he was an established merchant in
his hometown. Returning from a trademission to Hamburgh, his
English ship was captured and brought to Ostende by a ship under
Russian colours in December, 1789. He was subsequently set free by
the British consulate, but his ship set him ashore in Dover for
fear of being captured again. Here, his story was recorded.
Shabeeni gave an indication of the size of the city in the second
half of the 18th. In an earlier passage, he described an
environment that was characterized by forest, as opposed to
nowadays' arid surroundings. Timbuktu was a world centre of Islamic
learning from the 13th to the 17th century. The Malian government
and NGOs have been working to catalog and restore the remnants of
this scholarly legacy: Timbuktu's manuscripts. Timbuktu's rapid
economic growth in the 13th and 14th centuries drew many scholars
from nearby Walata, leading up to the city's golden age in the 15th
and 16th centuries that proved fertile ground for scholarship of
religions, arts and science. An active trade in books between
Timbuktu and other parts of the Islamic world and emperor Askia
Mohammed's strong support led to the writing of thousands of
manuscripts. Timbuktu served in this process as a distribution
centre of scholars and scholarship. Its reliance on trade meant
intensive movement of scholars between the city and its extensive
network of trade partners. In 1468-1469 though, many scholars left
for Walata when Sunni Ali's Songhay Empire absorbed Timbuktu and
again in 1591 with the Moroccan occupation. This system of
education survived until late 19th century, while the 18th century
saw the institution of itinerant Quranic school as a form of
universal education, where scholars would travel throughout the
region with their students, begging for food part of the day.
Islamic education came under pressure after the French occupation,
droughts in the 70s and 80s and by Mali's civil war in the early
90s.
To Which Is Added, Letters Descriptive Of Travels Through West And
South Barbary, And Across The Mountains Of Atlas.
To Which Is Added, Letters Descriptive Of Travels Through West And
South Barbary, And Across The Mountains Of Atlas.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|