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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Place Tivaouane, Senegal Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. EAP1245/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1
Title:
Mountaga Ba
Scope & Content:
Mountaga Ba is the current custodian of the manuscripts recorded in his name and collected from the town of Pate Galo (northern Senegal). Ba’s family holding includes 56 small unbound book manuscripts and paper stacks. The material was mainly authored by the custodian’s father, Muhammad al-Ghāli...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Pulaar
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
2042 TIFF images

2. EAP1245/1/34

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/34
Title:
التاريح الحج ماليك سي
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a biography of Islamic leader Al Hajj Malig Si of Senegal. The author biographed here is the founder of the Sy branch of Tijaniyya based in the city of Tivaouane. It is one of a series of biographies that the author has written about Islamic leaders in West Africa. Ce manuscr...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1970s
Extent:
16 TIFF images