SOURCES, RESOURCES
* Note: The resources on Baghdad collected in the RAA Project so far tend to focus on musical activities there. The broader social and economic characteristics of Baghdadi society can be traced in the discussions of these music-centred settings, but more research is needed to collect materials that give a fuller picture of Baghdad at the time when the man from Mapungubwe would have arrived there.
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Fabrizi, Mariabruna. 2015. The Round City of Baghdad. Online Maps, images and description of 10th-century Baghdad.
Farmer, Henry George. 1929. A History of Arabian Music to the XIIIth Century. London: Luzac. The first chapters give an overview of Baghdad’s history more generally.
Kennedy, Hugh. 2004. The Court of the Caliphs : The Rise and Fall of Islam’s Greatest Dynasty. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Le Strange, Guy. 1983. Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate: From Contemporary Arabic and Persian Sources. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press.
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Talib, Y. 1988. ‘The African diaspora in Asia’. Chapter 26 in Unesco General History of Africa III: Africa from the Seventh to the Eleventh Century, ed. M. Elfasi. Berkeley, CA: Heinemann & UNESCO.