Arabic Historical Literature from Ghadāmis and Mali: Documents from the 18th to 20th Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-30644-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Arabisch, Band 22, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 593 g

Reihe: Islam in Africa

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Norris, Harry T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

General Introduction

Text 1: Tadhkir al-Nasi wa-Talyin al-Qalb al-Qa?i (The Reminder of the Forgetful and the Softener of the Harsh), by Mu?ammad b. Mu?ammad b. Musa b. Muhalhil al-Ghadamisi

Text 2: Khabar al-Suq (The history of al-Suq), by ?Abd al-Hamid ?Abdallah al-?arama

Text 3: al-Jawhar al-Thamin fi Akhbar ?a?ra? al-Mulaththamin (The Precious Jewel in the Saharan Histories of the “People of the Veil”), by Mu?ammad Tawjaw al-Suqi al-Thani

Text 4: Ghadamis, Malami? wa-?uwar (Ghadamis, Its Features, Its Images and Its Sights), by Bashir Qasim Yusha?

Conclusion

Figures

Selected Bibliography

Subjects

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Harry T. Norris (1926 - 2019) was Professor Emeritus of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of London. Before this he was Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at SOAS where he taught classical and modern Arabic from 1952-1995, and an associate Fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London.