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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Project / Collection Pulaar Islamic Texts: Six Archives of the Taal Families in Senegal and Mali Place Nouakchott, Mauritania

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. EAP1245/1/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/7
Title:
أضواء على حياة سيد نور تال
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a biography of Senegalese Sufi leader Seydu Nuuru Taal. The author traces Taal's genealogy as one of Umar Taal's prominent grandsons. It narrates detaiuls about his birth, training, and his political role in colonial Senegal. The author began the book in 1981 and completed it o...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1981-1984
Extent:
66 TIFF images

3. EAP1245/1/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/8
Title:
بعض القصيدة لمحمد الغالي با
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a collection of qasidas about different topics. It contains ten poems. The poems were composed in different places. For example, the first poem was written in Nouackchott, Mauritania. The second in Kayedi, Mauritania, and focuses on Ceerno Ahmad Nene Baba. The collection touche...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
10 TIFF images

4. EAP1245/1/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/9
Title:
قصاءد لشيخ محمد الغالي با
Scope & Content:
This volume contains seven poems handwritten by Muhammad al-Ghāli Ba. According to the author's son, Mountaga Ba, the poems were probably composed in the mid-1970s a time when the author lived in Mauritania, while working at the country's national radio station and serving as a special counsel t...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Mid 1970s
Extent:
61 TIFF images

5. EAP1245/1/10

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/10
Title:
أحزاب السياسية في موريتانيا
Scope & Content:
This manuscript includes correspondences and one article. The correspondences had been destined to several people. The article was written back when the author, Muhammad al-Ghali, was working at Mauritania' s National Radio. The article addresses the political situation of Mauritania in the 1980...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1980s
Extent:
7 TIFF images

6. EAP1245/1/11

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/11
Title:
أحزاب السياسية في موريتانيا
Scope & Content:
This is a manuscript by Muhammad al-Ghali Ba. It contains an analysis of the political parties in Mauritania. The first page provides a geographical description of Mauritania. It discusses parties such as An wisaaqu al-Muritani (Unity in Mauritania). This first Mauritanian political party was cr...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Early 1980s
Extent:
28 TIFF images

7. EAP1245/1/12

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/12
Title:
لما سلانيلما سالني بعض الاخوان
Scope & Content:
The manuscript was composed by Muhammad al-Ghali Ba and was based on an anoher manuscricipt originally authored by Muhammed bun Alhajj Abubakri (Rahmatullah Aleyhi). It was written in 1389/H. The manuscript contains answers to a number of questions. The manuscripts tells the biography and histor...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19 Nov 1970
Extent:
27 TIFF images

8. EAP1245/1/14

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/14
Title:
قولوا معي
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains writings by Muhammad al-Ghali. It has four qasida poems and 2 speeches written in Nouakcott, Mauritania. The first qasida reflects on the acquisition of independence in Mauritania, which the author portrays as a liberation era for Mauritanian people. The second qasida tal...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1968
Extent:
19 TIFF images

9. EAP1245/1/15

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/15
Title:
الحمد لله الذ
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was composed by a friend of al-Ghali Ba, Abubakry Sy, who was an ambassador of Senegal in Nigeria back then. It contains two qasida poems totalling all 11 pages. The first is a praise poem to Prophet Muhammad and was completed on December 12, 1988. The second was also written in ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
12 Dec 1989
Extent:
10 TIFF images

10. EAP1245/1/24

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/24
Title:
إل حاج مؤاج المردي
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a set of biographies detailing the lives of famous Islamic guides in the Futa Toro region. The first section covers the biography of Al Hajj Mu'aj of the village of Marda, in northern Senegal. The second section outlines the life achievements Ibn Ibādī. The texts outline infor...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19 Jan 1978
Extent:
57 TIFF images