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Preface
Prologue
Part I. Early Sahel and Savannah: chapter 1. The middle Niger in pre-antiquity and global context; chapter 2. Early Gao; chapter 3. The kingdoms of Ghana: reform along the Senegal River; chapter 4. Slavery and race imagined in Bil?ad As-S?ud?an
Part II. Imperial Mali: chapter 5. The meanings of Sunjata and the dawn of imperial Mali; chapter 6. Mans?a M?us?a and global Mali; chapter 7. Intrigue, Islam, and Ibn Ba?t?t?u?ta
Part III. Imperial Songhay: chapter 8. Sunni ‘Al?i and the reinvention of Songhay; chapter 9. The Sunni and the scholars: a tale of revenge; chapter 10. Renaissance: the age of Askia Al-?H?ajj Mu?hammad; chapter 11. Of clerics and concubines
Part IV. Le dernier de l'empire: chapter 12. Of fitnas and fratricide: the nadir of imperial Songhay; chapter 13. Surfeit and stability: the era of Askia D?aw?ud; chapter 14. The rending asunder: dominion's end
Epilogue. A thousand years
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Prologue
Part I. Early Sahel and Savannah: chapter 1. The middle Niger in pre-antiquity and global context; chapter 2. Early Gao; chapter 3. The kingdoms of Ghana: reform along the Senegal River; chapter 4. Slavery and race imagined in Bil?ad As-S?ud?an
Part II. Imperial Mali: chapter 5. The meanings of Sunjata and the dawn of imperial Mali; chapter 6. Mans?a M?us?a and global Mali; chapter 7. Intrigue, Islam, and Ibn Ba?t?t?u?ta
Part III. Imperial Songhay: chapter 8. Sunni ‘Al?i and the reinvention of Songhay; chapter 9. The Sunni and the scholars: a tale of revenge; chapter 10. Renaissance: the age of Askia Al-?H?ajj Mu?hammad; chapter 11. Of clerics and concubines
Part IV. Le dernier de l'empire: chapter 12. Of fitnas and fratricide: the nadir of imperial Songhay; chapter 13. Surfeit and stability: the era of Askia D?aw?ud; chapter 14. The rending asunder: dominion's end
Epilogue. A thousand years
Select bibliography.