Modern Western scholars, journalists, travellers, and colonial officials have shown an interest in Timbuktu’s famous seventeenth-century chronicles ever since they heard of them in the mid nineteenth-century. The three tārīkhs (chronicles) are the Tārīkh al-Sūdān, the so-called Tarīkh al-fattāsh, and the Notice historique. The first Western written works began to be produced at the end of the nineteenth century and burgeoned over the twentieth century with several large projects continuing into the present century, as recent as 2015. These works were primarily, though not exclusively, concerned with the authorship, sources, and political properties of the tārīkhs. This article is interested in Muslim theology as a resource of the Tārīkh al-Sūdān, one the three tārīkhs. It focuses in particular on the precepts of Ashʿarī kalām (theology) of Sunni Islam as the key resource the author of the Tarīkh al-Sūdān.

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探索 17 世纪 tārīkh 的神学资源：Tārīkh al-Sūdān 和 Ashʿarī kalām

现代西方学者、记者、旅行者和殖民官员自从 19 世纪中叶听说廷巴克图著名的 17 世纪编年史以来，就对它们表现出了兴趣。三个 tārīkhs（编年史）是 Tārīkh al-Sūdān、所谓的 Tarīkh al-fattāsh 和《Notice historique》。第一批西方书面作品于 19 世纪末开始创作，并在 20 世纪蓬勃发展，几个大型项目一直持续到本世纪，最近的 2015 年。这些作品主要（但不完全）与作者身份有关tārīkhs 的来源和政治属性。这篇文章对穆斯林神学感兴趣，因为它是 Tārīkh al-Sūdān 的一种资源，Tārīkh al-Sūdān 是三个 tārīkh 之一。