Medieval Authors about East Africa
By Pieter Derideaux
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No books have appeared on this subject for many years. This is strange as a number have appeared concerning West Africa. To fill this void I try making these texts available to everybody.
When using these texts (in e.g. articles or on a website); please mention my name; I worked years on collecting - translating them. No commercial use allowed.
Pieter Derideaux
Contents:
Muslim World
Chinese Empire
Christian World
India (Muslim+Hindu)
South East Asian States
Neighboring African States
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-Ali Zayn al-Abidin (657)
-Abu Mikhnaf (680)
-Umayr ibn Qatadah (694)
-Greek text (700)
-Dandin (7th cent)
-Chachnama (translated Ali Kufi) (710)
-Note of Daibal
-Al Fazari (722)
-Jarir b.Atiya (728)
-Zayd Ibn Ali (d740)
-Li Sun (8th cent)
-Zhang Ji (8th century)
-Yahya ibn Barmak (800)
-Yahya ibn Batrik (800)
-Asmaee (800)
-Tu-Yu (801)
-Jia Dan (801)
-Early Shiite Prayer (818)
-Hui-Lin (820)
-Tabula Almamuniana (833)
-Al Khwarizmi (847)
-Dunhuang (781-847)
-Abu Zaid Hassan (851)
-Ibn Masawaih (d857)
-Inscription Gedangan (860)
-Note on Inscriptions in Java
-Tuan Ch'eng-Shih (863)
-Chu Wai-chuan (868)
-Al Jahiz The Boast of the Blacks(d869)
-Al Jahiz Kitab al Hayawan (d869)
-Al Jahiz Kitab al Hayawan(on castration)(969)
-Al Jahiz , other works (d869)
-Al Tabari (838-870)
-Ibn Qutayba (880)
-Abumazer (d885)
-Ibn Khordadbeh (886)
-Ahmed bin Yahya bin Jabir (893)
-Ibn Wadih al Ya'qubi (d893)
-Tombstone Dahlak (900)
-Apospasmatia Geographica (9th century)
-Delhemma (9th century)
-Abu Jabir Muhammed.b.Ja'far (900)
-Abi'l-Hawari (9th cent)
-Bundahisn (9thcentury)
-Tansar (9th century)
-Ibn Rosteh (903)
-Al Hamadan (903)
-Al Kisa'i (d904)
-Qusta ibn Luqa (d912)
-Al Masudi (916)
-Al Masudi -Tanbih (916)
-Abu Zaid Balkhi (921)
-Zahariya al Razi (925)
-Al Battina (929)
-Qadama (930)
-Inscription of Mpoe Sindok (931)
-Ibn Durayd (d933)
-Abu I Tayyib M. al-Washsha (d936)
-Al Kulayni (d939)
-Liu Xu (940)
-Note on Zangi Slaves
-Suhrab (945)
-Kitab Ikhwan as-Safa (950)
-Ishaq ibn al-Housain (950)
-Hu Kiao (953)
-Buzurg (955)
-Buzurg notes and conclusions
-Note on Ambergris
-Al Jihani (956)
-Istakhri (957)
-Wang Pu (961)
-Hamza al-isfahani (961)
-Al Kindi (968)
-Ibn Hawqal (970)
-Saiyyidna Qadi al-Nu'man (d974)
-Li fang (and Kunlun) (980)
-Jnatadharmakatha Suryaprajnapti (after 980)
-Hudud al Alam (982)
Mughal, India, 1629.
Found in Bernard Lewis; Race and slavery
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