{"product_id":"arabic-historical-literature-from-ghadamis-and-mali-documents-from-the-18th-to-20th-century-9789004306448","title":"Arabic Historical Literature from Ghadāmis and Mali: Documents from the 18th to 20th Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this work translations of four texts are provided from Ghadāmis and from Mali. The first is a biography of the Ghadāmisī scholar ʿAbdallāh 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-Sūqī al-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 Yūshaʿ, published in Arabic in 2001 AD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements    General Introduction    Text 1: Tadhkīr al-Nāsī wa-Talyīn al-Qalb al-Qāṣī (The Reminder of the Forgetful and the Softener of the Harsh), by Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Mūsā b. Muhalhil al-Ghadāmisī    Text 2: Khabar al-Sūq (The history of al-Sūq), by ʿAbd al-Hamīd ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥarāma    Text 3: al-Jawhar al-Thamīn fi Akhbār Ṣaḥrāʾ al-Mulaththamīn (The Precious Jewel in the Saharan Histories of the “People of the Veil”), by Muḥammad Tawjaw al-Sūqī al-Thānī    Text 4: Ghadāmis, Malāmiḥ wa-Ṣuwar (Ghadāmis, Its Features, Its Images and Its Sights), by Bashīr Qāsim Yūshaʿ    Conclusion    Figures  Selected Bibliography  Subjects  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210678198615,"sku":"9789004306448","price":115.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/arabic-historical-literature-from-ghadamis-and-mali-documents-from-the-18th-to-20th-century-9789004306448","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}