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The Tārīkh al-fattāsh is one of the most important and celebrated sources for the history of pre-colonial West Africa, yet it has confounded scholars for decades with its inconsistences and questions surrounding its authorship. In this study, Mauro Nobili examines and challenges existing theories on the chronicle, arguing that much of what we have presumed about the work is deeply flawed. Making extensive use of previously unpublished Arabic sources, Nobili demonstrates that the Tārīkh al-fattāsh was in fact written in the nineteenth century by a Fulani scholar, Nūḥ b. al-Ṭāhir, who modified pre-existing historiographical material as a political project in legitimation of the West African Islamic state known as the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi and its founding leader Aḥmad Lobbo. Contextualizing its production within the broader development of the religious and political landscape of West Africa, this study represents a significant moment in the study of West African history and of the evolution of Arabic historical literature in Timbuktu and its surrounding regions.

Fula (African people) --- Islam and state --- Mosque and state --- State and Islam --- State, The --- Ummah (Islam) --- Adamawa Fula (African people) --- Adamawa Fulani (African people) --- Eastern Fulani (African people) --- Felata (African people) --- Fellani (African people) --- Foulah (African people) --- Foulbé (African people) --- Ful (African people) --- Fulah (African people) --- Fulahs --- Fulani (African people) --- Fulbe (African people) --- Fulfede (African people) --- Fulfulde (African people) --- Futa (African people) --- Peul (African people) --- Peulh (African people) --- Ethnology --- Tukulor (African people) --- Kings and rulers --- Historiography. --- History --- Shehu Ahmadu Lobbo, --- Nūḥ ibn al-Ṭāhir, --- Alpha Nuhu Taahiru, --- Alfa Nuhu Tayrou, --- Alpha Nuuhu Taahiru, --- Ibn al-Ṭāhir, Nūḥ, --- Nūḥ b. al-Ṭāhir, --- Nūḥ b. al-Ṭāhir b. Mūsá, --- Nūḥ b. al-Ṭāhir Belko b. Abī Bakr b. Mūsà al-Fulānī, --- Nūḥ bin al-Ṭāhir, --- Nūḥ ibn al-Ṭāhir ibn Mūsá, --- Nuhu Tayrou, --- Nuuhu Taahiru, --- Taahiru, Nuhu, --- Taahiru, Nuuhu, --- Ṭāhir, Nūḥ ibn, --- Tayrou, Nuhu, --- نوح بن الطاهر, --- نوح بن الطاهر بن موسى, --- طاهر, نوح, --- Aamadu Hammadi Buubu, --- Aḥmad bin Muḥammad, --- Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Saʻid Lobbo, --- Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Abī Bakr, --- Aḥmad bin Muḥammad Būbū bin Abī Bakr bin Saʻīd al-Fullānī, --- Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abū Bakr ibn Saʻīd, --- Ahmad Lobbo, --- Ahmadou ben Mohammed, --- Ahmadou Hammadi, --- Ahmadou Hammadi Boubou, --- Ahmadou Lobo, --- Aḥmadu bin Muḥammadu Lobbo, --- Ahmadu Hammadi Bubu, --- Ahmadu ibn Hammadi, --- Ahmadu Lobbo, --- Amadu Lobbo, --- Bari, Cheikou Amadou, --- Bari, Hamad, --- Boubou, Ahmadou Hammadi, --- Buubu, Aamadu Hammadi, --- Cheikou Ahmadou, --- Cheikou Amadou, --- Cheikou Amadou Bari, --- Cheikou Ahmadu Lobbo, --- Cheikou Ahmadu Lobo, --- Hamad Bari, --- Lobbo, Amadu, --- Lobbo, Shehu Ahmadu, --- Lobo, Ahmadou, --- Lobo, Seku Ahmadu, --- Lobo, Shehu Ahmadu, --- Seeku Aamadu, --- Sékou Ahmadou, --- Sékou Amadou, --- Sékou-Hamadou, --- Seku Amadu, --- Seku Ahmadu Lobbo, --- Seku Ahmadu Lobo, --- Shaykh Aḥmad, --- Shaykh ʼAḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Saʻid Lobbo, al-Māsinī, --- Shaykh Aḥmadu bin Muḥammadu Lobbo, --- Shehu Ahmadu Lobo, --- Shékou Amadou, --- أحمدو بن محمّدو لبّو, --- شيخ أحمدو بن محمّدو لبّو, --- Tārīkh al-fattāsh. --- Fattāsh --- Fettâssi --- Tārīkh al-fattāsh fī akhbār al-buldān wa-l-juyūsh wa-akābir al-nās --- Tārīkh al-fattāsh fī akhbār al-buldān wa-al-juyūsh wa-akābir al-nās --- تاريخ الفتاش --- تاريخ الفتاش في اخبار البلدان والجيوش واكابر الناس --- Macina (Empire) --- Sudan (Region) --- Inland Niger Delta (Mali) --- Hamdallahi (Mali) --- Sudan Belt (Region) --- Sudanic Region --- Delta Central du Niger (Mali) --- Inner Niger Delta (Mali) --- Interior Delta (Mali) --- Internal Delta of the Niger (Mali) --- Lower Inland Niger Delta (Mali) --- Niger Inland Delta (Mali) --- Niger River Delta (Mali) --- Upper Inland Niger Delta (Mali) --- Macina --- Caliphate of Hamdullāhi --- Empire peul du Macina --- Hamdullāhi Caliphate --- Maasina --- Masina --- Peul Empire of Macina --- Hamdullāhi (Mali) --- History.