Hadrien Collet French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo icon-calendar Wednesday January 22ⁿᵈ, 2020 Historically, the kingdom of Takrūr is one of the first regions in West Africa have adopted Islam, in the middle of the 5ᵗʰ/11ᵗʰ century. This kingdom is not unknown to Arab authors: al-Masʿūdī (d. 345/956) mentions