7 – 8.30 pm (OESZ) / 6 –7.30 pm (CEST)
Bruce S. Hall
Al-Suyūṭī is widely seen as one of the most important Muslim scholarly authorities in West Africa. Manuscript copies of al-Suyūṭī’s works are plentiful in the region in a wide range of subjects (for example, there are 187 extant copies of al-Suyūṭī works in the main public archive in Timbuktu, Mali). The paper will present the most widely attested titles in the region as part of an effort to evaluate al-Suyūṭī’s particular contribution to the ‘core curriculum’ of what became the Muslim intellectual tradition in West Africa. In addition, the paper will examine the connections between al-Suyūṭī and Muslim West African scholars in a well-known exchange of letters and accounts written by al-Suyūṭī himself of receiving West African visitors. It will also discuss more fanciful insertions of al-Suyūṭī into eighteenth- and nineteenth-century West African pseudo-historical writings as a key Middle Eastern Arab figure conferring authority on particular West African lineages and political claimants.
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