Harry T. Norris, "Arabic Historical Literature from Ghadmis and Mali Documents from the 18th to 20th Century (English and Arabic Edition)"
English, العربية | ISBN: 9004306447 | 2020 | 292 pages | PDF | 6 MB
English, العربية | ISBN: 9004306447 | 2020 | 292 pages | PDF | 6 MB
In this work translations of four texts are provided from Ghadmis and from Mali. The first is a biography of the Ghadmis scholar Abdallh b. Ab Bakr al-Ghadmis (16261719 AD), written by the eighteenth-century author Ibn Muhalhil al-Ghadmis. A second text is The History of al-Sq, concerning al-Sq, the historic town of Tdmakka 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 Muammad Tawjaw al-Sq al-Thn, 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 Ghadmis, its features, its images and its sights by Bashr Qsim Ysha, published in Arabic in 2001 AD.