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| Title: | Arabic Historical Literature from Ghadamis and Mali: Documents from the 18th to 20th Century |
| Author: | Norris, Harry T. |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Issue: | 22 |
| Pages: | 284 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Islam in Africa (ISSN 1570-3754) |
| City of publisher: | Leiden |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| ISBN: | 9789004306448 |
| Geographic terms: | Northern Africa Mali Maghreb |
| Subjects: | history literature Tuareg |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004315853 |
| Abstract: | In this work translations of four texts are provided from Ghadamis and from Mali. The first is a biography of the Ghadamisi scholar 'Abdallah b. Abi Bakr al-Ghadamisi (1626–1719 AD), written by the eighteenth-century author Ibn Muhalhil al-Ghadamisi. A second text is 'The History of al-Suq', concerning al-Suq, the historic town of Tadmakka 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 Muhammad Tawjaw al-Suqi al-Thani, 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 'Ghadamis, its features, its images and its sights' by Bashir Qasim Yusha', published in Arabic in 2001 AD. |
