NEHEMIAH LEVTZION, Hebrew University, one of the world's leading experts on the history of Islamic peoples, is the author of numerous books including Medieval Ghana.
"The main sources for the medieval history of West Africa are to be found in Arabic writings....Here, in 372 pages of clear English translations, is the sum of what Islamic scholars wrote about West Africa between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, together with the notes necessary to its evaluation and the detailed indexes and glossaries which facilitate comparative use....the work of Levtzion and Hopkins...has been supremely well done." - Times Literary Supplement Of the original hardcover edition: "Only its grotesque price will prevent it from reaching the shelves of the teachers of West African history for whom it was designed." - Times Literary Supplement"
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