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Iʿlam anna wajadnā min anwāʿ al-kufr al-mujammiʿ ʿalayhā faḍlan ʿan al-mukhtalif fīhi fī al-ṭalabah اعلم أن وجدنا من أنواع الكفرالمجمع عليها فضلا عن المختلف فيه في الطلبة
Scope & Content:
Unidentified work by Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad Ibn ʿUmar on different forms of unbelief
Unidentified work by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Abī Maḥallī (1389-1459). Chapter headings concern the importance of learning about aspects of religious belief, the meaning of God, avoiding taqlīd (imitation), purity and ritual cleanliness.
ينبغي للمؤمن بل يجب عليه أن يجاهد نفسه yanbaghī lil-muʾmin bal yajib ʿalayhu an yujāhid nafsahu
Scope & Content:
A work by Muḥammad Ibn Abī Maḥalli on the Sufi concept of "jihad of the self", citing Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Jazāʾirī, Muḥammad Ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (1435/6-1490) who was an Imām of Tilimsān (d.1486) and others. The colophon states that Ibrāhīm Suwaré, son of Fāṭima Dramé, is the owner
وصية شيخ سالم الزاغاوي الكسمي Waṣīyat Shaykh Sālim al-Zāghāwī al-Gasamī
Scope & Content:
"The Will of Shaykh Sālim al-Zāghāwī al-Gasamī", an obituary poem for a scholar of Touba named Sālim al-Zāghāwī al-Gasamī. Touba is a name for many Jakhanke settlements in the Senegambian region. Mentions the people of Touba, Futa and other places.
The "prefaces" of Muḥammad Ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (1435/6-1490), Imām of Tilimsān (d.1486), who wrote study manuals on tawḥīd. The colophon states that this copy was made by Ibrāhīm Suwāré.