Arabic historical literature from Ghadāmis and Mali
Subtitle: documents from the 18th to 20th century
By: by Harry T. Norris, with Abdaljabbar A. Assaghir
Contributors: Abd al-Jabbar, compiler, translator; Yūshaʻ, Bashīr Qāsim; Harāmah, ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd ʻAbd Allāh
Series: Islam in Africa -- volume 22; Islam in Africa -- v. 22.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9789004306448; 9789004315853
Subjects: Description and travel; History; Tuaregs; Travel
Description: "In this work translations of four texts are provided from Ghadāmis and from Mali. The first is a biography of the Ghadāmisī scholar ʻAbdallāh 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-Sūqīal-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 Yūshaʻ, published in Arabic in 2001 AD"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-273) and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Khabar al-Sūq (The History of al-Sūq) / by Abd al-Ḥamīd ʻAbdallāh al-Ḥarāma; title: 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; title: Ghadāmis, Malāmiḥ wa-Ṣuwar (Ghadāmis, Its Features, Its Images and Its Sights) / by Bashīr Qāsim Yūshaʻ; title: Conclusion; title: Figures; title: Selected Bibliography; title: Index.