Massufa

Japanese: Massufa
Massufa

...The name Walata appears in the writings of Italian geographers of the 14th century, and the great Arab traveler Ibn Battuta visited this town (which he called Iwaratan) in 1352, stayed there for 50 days, and then walked for 24 days to the capital of the then Mali Empire. Ibn Battuta describes this town as the first black country (Sudan) to travel south from the Sahara, and states that the majority of the residents were Massufa merchants, who are thought to be a tribe of Moors, and that goods from North Africa were unloaded and traded here. He also writes that there were fresh water wells, that date palms and watermelons were cultivated, that there were many sheep, that the residents wore good Egyptian clothing, that women had a high status, and that matrilineal succession was respected, the last point reminiscent of the influence of the matrilineal succession of the nomadic Tuareg people of Western Sahara.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Massufa" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…14世紀のイタリアの地誌家の記述にはワラタの名があり,アラブの大旅行者イブン・バットゥータは1352年にこの町(彼はイワーラータンと呼んでいる)を訪れて50日滞在し,その後24日歩いて当時のマリ帝国の都に赴いている。イブン・バットゥータはこの町を,サハラを南下してきて初めての黒人の国(スーダン)の町としているが,住民の大部分はムーア(モール)人の一部族と思われるマスーファ族Massufaの商人で,北アフリカからの商品がここでおろされ取引されていると述べている。真水の井戸があり,ナツメヤシ,スイカなどを栽培し,羊が多く,住民はエジプト製のよい衣服をつけ,女性の地位が高く,母系が重んじられていたとも記されているが,最後の点は,西サハラの遊牧民トゥアレグの母系継承の影響を思わせる。…

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