[25] Taʼrīk͟h al-Sūdān, p. 21. [↑]
[26] Ibn Baṭūṭah, tome iv. pp. 421–2. [↑]
[27] Ramusio, tom. i. p. 78. [↑]
[28] Winwood Reade describes them as “a tall, handsome, light-coloured race, Moslems in religion, possessing horses and large herds of cattle, but also cultivating cotton, ground-nuts, and various kinds of corn. I was much pleased with their kind and hospitable manners, the grave and decorous aspect of their women, the cleanliness and silence of their villages.” (W. Winwood Reade: African Sketchbook, vol. i. p. 303.) [↑]
[29] Waitz, IIer Theil, pp. 18–19. [↑]
[30] Palmer (p. 59) places its introduction into Kano between A.D. 1349 and 1385, another Hausa chronicle makes the reign of the first Muhammadan king of Zozo begin about 1456. (Journal of the African Society, vol. ix. p. 161.) [↑]
[31] For the various enumerations of these, see Meyer, p. 27. [↑]
[32] As in other parts of the Muslim world, tradition places the first introduction of Islam in the lifetime of the founder and gives the name of al-Fazāzī, a reputed companion of the Prophet, as the apostle of the Hausa people. (J. Lippert: Sudanica. MSOS, iii. part 3, p. 204. Berlin, 1900.) [↑]
[33] Mischlich and Lippert, pp. 138–9. [↑]
[34] Meyer, loc. cit. Artin Pasha (p. 62) puts the beginning of this infiltration of Muslim Arabs as early as the eighth century. [↑]