Arabic historical literature from Ghadāmis and Mali : : documents from the 18th to 20th century / / by Harry T. Norris ; with Abdaljabbar A. Assaghir.

• Superior document: Islam in Africa ; Volume 22
• VerfasserIn: Norris, H. T.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Assaghir, Abdaljabbar A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Islam in Africa ; Volume 22.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In this work translations of four texts are provided from Ghadāmis and from Mali. The first is a biography of the Ghadāmisī scholar ʿAbdallāh b. Abī Bakr al-Ghadāmisī (1626–1719 AD), written by the eighteenth-century author Ibn Muhalhil al-Ghadāmisī. A second text is “The History of al-Sūq”, concerning al-Sūq, the historic town of Tādmakka and the original home of the Kel-Essouk Tuareg. The third text is “The Precious Jewel in the Saharan histories of the ‘People of the Veil’” by Muḥammad Tawjaw al-Sūqī al-Thānī, a contemporary Tuareg author. It pertains to the Kel-Essouk and their historical ties with the Maghreb and West Africa. The final text is a description of the Tuareg from the book “Ghadāmis, its features, its images and its sights” by Bashīr Qāsim Yūshaʿ, published in Arabic in 2001 AD.

Table of Contents

Tadhkīr al-Nāsī wa-Talyīn al-Qalb al-Qāsī (The Reminder of the Forgetful and the Softener of the Harsh) / by Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Mūsā b. Muhalhil al-Ghadāmisī -- Khabar al-Sūq (The History of al-Sūq) / by Abd al-Ḥamīd ʻAbdallāh al-Ḥarāma -- al-Jawhar al-Thamīn fī Akhbār Ṣaḥrāʼ al-Mulaththamīn (The Precious Jewel in the Saharan Histories of the "People of the Veil") / by Muḥammad Tawjaw al-Sūqī al-Thānī -- Ghadāmis, Malāmiḥ wa-Ṣuwar (Ghadāmis, Its Features, Its Images and Its Sights) / by Bashīr Qāsim Yūshaʻ -- Conclusion -- Figures -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.