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The manuscript is Al Hajj Umar Taal's handwritten copy of a another manuscript copy penned by Yahya ibu Yahya Laythi al-andalusī. Al-andalusi's manuscript is the handwritten copy of another original text written by Imam Malik. The manuscript is a commentary on Shari'a law and is replete with quo...
Oumar Sy is the custodian of the manuscripts recorded in his name and collected from the town of Ndioum (Senegal). The Sy collection includes 10 small unbound manuscripts and documents. The material was mainly authored by popular Pulaar Sufi poet Oumar Sy, but some of the files are copies of Aja...
This manuscript is a collection of poems composed by Shaukh Ahmad Tijāni Bah. The poems praise Prophet Muhammad. Ce manuscrit est un recueil de poèmes composé par Shaukh Ahmad Tijāni Bah. Les poèmes louent le prophète Mahomet. Extent: 1 manuscript containing 19 pages. Condition of original ma...
This collection runs the gamut from Chinese epics to cookbooks. It covers the administration of several small entrepreneurs, often of Chinese origin. It also contain notebooks from colonial schools for indigenous and Oriental (often Chinese or Arab) students and Chinese schools which were abolis...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Indonesian, Javanese, and Malay
This collection contains the papers of Abdallah Bey Hamza, a merchant and creditor from the northern Sudanese town of Matamma. It deals with his commercial transactions, including lands bought, sold, and rented; commercial receipts; partnership contracts; marriage and divorce contracts; legal ca...