Start With The Core Histories
Use these for broad chronology, public orientation, and the first pass on major claims.
Source Type: Primary Source Collection
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Choose The Right Source First
These routes help readers move from broad orientation to specialist evidence without treating every bibliography entry as interchangeable.
Check Specialist Periods
Move here when the claim depends on taifas, Maghrebi empires, Nasrid Granada, or Morisco history.
Follow Texts And Ideas
Open translated primary-source editions and intellectual biographies before simplifying major thinkers.
Ground Places, Art, And Institutions
Use these when the page needs material culture, al-Qarawiyyin, medicine, trade, or late Granada context.
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Topics
Follow themes like architecture, terminology, law, trade, and myth checking.
Regions
Browse by geography, including al-Andalus, the Maghreb, Iberia, and wider connected regions.
Eras
Move through the record by century, dynasty, and major historical period.
Claims
Check common public claims against evidence, source limits, and editorial verdicts.
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Levtzion and Hopkins, Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History
A major translated collection of Arabic writings on medieval West Africa and the Sahara, useful for source-aware claims about trade, Islamization, Ghana, Mali, Takrur, Kanem, Bornu, and the Almoravid movement.