Acerca del presunto (y discutible) origen mudéjar del autor del Taʾrij al-fattāš.

Acerca del presunto (y discutible) origen mudéjar del autor del Taʾrij al-fattāš.

 

The Kati family happens to be one of the most dignitary in the city of Timbuktu, which is probably the most important political, economic and cultural center of the Western Sub-Saharan Africa since 13th century on. The mostly considered author of theTaʾrīj al-Fattāš, Maḥmūd Kāti, was part of this family. This chronicle is an essential source for the knowledge of the history of which Medieval Arabian writers called Bilād al-Sūdān, the Country of Black People. The aim of this article is to review the tradition kept within the family, that Maḥmūd Kāti’s father, descendant of a very old Andalusi lineage, settled in Western Sudan in the last third of 15th century, coming from the Iberian Peninsula.

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