Research and Sources

As promised, here are some of the useful books and articles I recommend for research. It’s all for my medieval Morocco books at present but I will add sections in future!

It is important – especially writing outside my “lane” – to be accurate. I eschew the fetishisation of culture. I strive to write people with their own pardigms rather than, yuh know… The Sheikh and His Harem Girl.

The Medieval Spains – Reilly;
The Almohad Movement in North Africa in the 12th and 13th Centuries – Le Tourneau;
Medieval West Africa: Views from Arab Scholars and Merchants – Levizion and Spaulding;
Avicenna’s Medicine – Abu-Asab Amri Micozzi;
The Travels of Ibn Battutah – Mackintosh-Smith;
Medieval West Africa – Conrad;
The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay – McKissack & McKissack.
The Flame of the Almohads, an historical essay – Pastore
Medieval Islamic Sectarianism – Baker
Worked bone tools: linking metal artisans and animal processors in medieval Islamic Morocco (from Antiquity Volume 76, No. 292, June 2002) – Benco
Black Morocco: A history of Slavery, Race, and Islam – Hamel
General History of Africa volume 3: Africa from the 7th to the 11th Century: Africa from the Seventh to the Eleventh Century v. 3 (Unesco General History of Africa (abridged) – ed. Hrbek
The Origins of the Empire of Ghana – Tahar Abbou, 2012 Al Hakika Journal
Timbuktu: A Paramount Medieval Centre of Trade and Knowledge – Tahar Abbou 2013 Rufuf Journal
Mansa Musa’s Journey to Mecca and Its Impact on Western Sudan – Tahar Abbou 2016 The International University of Africa
The Early City in West Africa: Towards An Understanding – Susan Keech Mcintosh 1984 African Archaeological Review
Bush Meat Consumption in large urban centres in West Africa – Barineme B Fakae 2018 Oryx
Interactions between North Africa and Spain: Medieval and Early Modern – Camilo Gómez-Rivas 2018 Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Africa
The Myth of Biblical Womanhood: A Perspective from Medieval Africa – Beth Allison Barr 2018 Eyes to See and Ears to Hear
Leadership Strategies in Medieval West African Cities of Ghana, Mali, Songhai – Christopher S Davies 2009 West Africa Review
Ancient Religions in North Africa According to Medieval Arabic Sources – Mohmaed Benabbes 2021 revista de historiografia 36
Early Trade Posts And Forts of West Africa – Christopher DeCorse
Islamic Law and Slavery in premodern West Africa – Marta G Novo
Dynamics of Metal Working in West Africa – Kolawole Adekola
(Im)Materiality, Diachrony, and Spatiality: Preliminary thoughts about three dimensions of long-distance ‘trade’ routes in medieval to early modern West Africa – Gérard LF Chouin + Adam Jasper
The Gold-Salt Trade in West Africa – Dals Salda
Oursi hu-beero. A medieval house complex in Burkina Faso, West Africa – Lucas Petit + Christoph Pelzer
Being a man in Mande and Igbo Societies: Masculinist Power System and Violence in Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote as Things Fall Apart – Ahmadou Siendou Konaté 2020African Journal of Literature and Humanities
A medieval boom in the North-West Sahara: Evolving Oasis Landscapes in the Wadi Draa, Morocco (700 – 1500 AD), Corisande Fenwick + David Mattingly 2021 Journal of Islamic Archaeology
Sijilmâsa (Morocco): The Urbanism of a Medieval Islanic Site As Seen Through its Hydraulic System (8th to 13th Centuries AD) – François Xavier Fauvelle + Thomas Soubira 2015 Nyame Akuma #84