The Paden collection of Arabic materials, Kano, Nigeria
Publisher: Filmed by the University of Chicago Library Photoduplication Dept. for Cooperative Africana Microform Project
Published: 1900
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: ara; hau
Number of pages: 15
Description: Collection includes works of classical Muslim/Arabic literature, especially basic jurisprudential treatises and the better diwans of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, as well as substantial number of works (especially among the pamphlets) of West African authorship in Hausa/Arabic script.
Notes: "The collection includes 424 volumes of which about half enclose manuscript materials while the other half enclose published books and pamphlets, most of them privately printed in Kano, Zaria or in Cairo"--P. [1]

Accompanied by separately published index entitled: Index to the Paden collection of Arabic materials, Kano, Nigeria.

Text in Arabic and Hausa (in Arabic script)