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| Title: | A Mahdist document from Futa Jallon |
| Author: | Martin, B.G. |
| Year: | 1963 |
| Periodical: | Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire, Série B: Sciences humaines |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 47-65 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | West Africa |
| Subjects: | Mahdis Futa Jallon polity |
| Abstract: | Deals with Al-Hajj 'Umar bin Sa 'id, the third of the West African Muslim reformers, born in Futa Toro 1797, killed near Masina in 1864. In 1942 Gilbert Vieillard obtained a twofolio document in poor Arabic, undated (approx. late 1850's) seeming to be a statement from 'Abd al-Muttalib ibn Ghalib, Sharif of Makka, concerning the coming of the Mahdi, and the part to be played by Al-Hajj 'Umar in preparing this event. This document is reproduced, accompanied by an attempt to read its faulty and incoherent Arabic, with a translation. Notes. |