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

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”, concern...

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Superior document:Islam in Africa ; Volume 22
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Islam in Africa ; Volume 22.
Physical Description:1 online resource
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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.