- Always great to see Mansa Musa in the news (though perhaps not for this reason). From the Saturday, 31 Jan 2026 history quiz in the New York Times, reporting on gold prices 5x what they were in 2017. #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges
- Tbf, it IS a cool source. I proofread the German translations of the Arabic primary sources for Fauvelle's Sub-Saharan Africa chapter in Daniel G. König (Hrsg.): Geschichte der Welt. 600–1350. Geteilte Welten, München 2023. Here the page with the exact source from al-ʿUmarī (d. 749/1349).
- And here the Arabic text from: Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār, ed. Kāmil Salmān al-Ǧubūrī/Mahdī an-Naǧm, Beirut 2010, Vol. 4, p. 58.
- Oh, and there is an English version of this #GlobalMiddleAges book: History of the World, vol. 2: Entangled Worlds: 600–1350, Cambridge/MA: The Belknap Press, 2025. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Jan 31, 2026 14:44
- Thanks for the link. For some reason, the Harvard UP site hasn't included the Table of Contents. For folks interested in the English version, the ToC can be found (w/ the introductory passages of each chapter) on JStor: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.23...
