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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Maps
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Dreaming Spires of Gold, Under the Desert Sun
Chapter Two: The Founder, the Founding and the Legends
Chapter Three: The City, Its Site and Its Neighborhood
Chapter Four: The Niger's Course and Meaning
Chapter Five: The People of the Region
Chapter Six: Precursors: The Empires of the Sun
Chapter Seven: The Comings of the Arabs
Chapter Eight: Mansa Musa and the First Golden Age of Timbuktu
Chapter Nine: The First Tuareg Interregnum
Chapter Ten: The Coming of the Songhai
Chapter Eleven: The Rise of Askia al-hajj Mohamed and the Second Golden Age
Chapter Twelve: The Underpinnings of Wealth
Chapter Thirteen: Travelers' Tales
Chapter Fourteen: Life and Learning in the City of Gold
Chapter Fifteen: The Second Golden Age and the Intellectual Tradition
Chapter Sixteen: The End of the Askias
Chapter Seventen: The Coming of the Moroccans
Chapter Eighteen: The Long March and the Pasha's Conquest of Timbuktu
Chapter Nineteen: The Long Decline
Chapter Twenty: The Coming of Jihad
Chapter Twenty-one: Finally, the Europeans
Chapter Twenty-two: And Now?
Appendix 1: Commonly Used Titles
Appendix 2: Lineages
Appendix 3: Glossary of Tribes and Cultures
Appendix 4: Who Was Who
Notes
Bibliography
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