TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harry T. Norris
AU  - Abd al-Jabbar,
AU  - Bashīr Qāsim Yūshaʻ
AU  - ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd ʻAbd Allāh Harāmah
TI  - Arabic Historical Literature from Ghadāmis and Mali: Documents from the 18th to the 20th Century
T2  - Islam in Africa,
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Tuaregs
KW  - Libya
KW  - Ghadāmis
KW  - Mali
KW  - Ghadāmis (Libya)
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Tadhkīr al-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-Ghadāmisī -- Khabar al-Sūq (The History of al-Sūq) / by Abd al-Ḥamīd ʻAbdallāh al-Ḥarāma -- al-Jawhar al-Thamīn fī Akhbār Ṣaḥrāʼ al-Mulaththamīn (The Precious Jewel in the Saharan Histories of the "People of the Veil") / by Muḥammad Tawjaw al-Sūqī al-Thānī -- Ghadāmis, Malāmiḥ wa-Ṣuwar (Ghadāmis, Its Features, Its Images and Its Sights) / by Bashīr Qāsim Yūshaʻ -- Conclusion -- Figures -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
N2  - "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"--
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