Although the authors of these historical texts are generally not mentioned, in a few cases names are given, but they are of persons whose writings are otherwise unknown.
General
Arabic titles
1. Akhbār al-zamān
Attributed to Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd al-Fullānī.
MS: Timbuktu (MHMT), 176, 630.
2. Naql al-kawāʾin
Events of bilād al-sūdān.958-1353/ 1551-1934. See also MKUB, 5, where this title is attributed to Aḥmad Bū’l-Aʿrāf.
MS: Timbuktu (CEDRAB), 330.
3. Q. rāʾiyya
On an expedition into Black Africa
MS: Paris (BN), 5444, ff. 29r-30v.
4. Shukr al-Māniḥ fī riḥlat Ibn a…