Arabic historical literature from Ghadāmis and Mali
documents from the 18th to 20th century
Bände/Inhalt:
- Taḏkīr an-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-Ġadāmisī
- Ḫabar as-sūq (The History of al-Sūq) / [edited] by Abd al-Ḥamīd ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥarāma
- al-Ǧawhar aṯ-ṯamīn fī aḫbār ṣaḥrāʾ al-Mulaṯṯamīn (The Precious Jewel in the Saharan Histories of the "People of the Veil") / by Muḥammad Tawǧaw as-Sūqī aṯ-Ṯānī
- Ġhadāmis, malāmiḥ wa-ṣuwar (Ghadāmis, Its Features, Its Images and Its Sights) / by Bašīr Qāsim Yūšaʿ
- "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"--