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Archive Reference (shelfmark) EAP1245/1 Language Arabic Subject Sufism

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. EAP1245/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/2
Title:
قصيد ة في طريقة التجانية
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a handwritten copy of the original written by Ibn Baabu Al-alawi. It is a poem in praise of Shaykh Ahmad al-Tijān. The manuscript was acquired by Muhammad al-Amin Ba in the year 1929 who passed it on to his son Muhammad Al-ghāli Ba (d.1991). Specifically, it touches on the sta...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
62 TIFF images

3. EAP1245/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/3
Title:
قصيد ة تاريخية عن الحاج عمر تال
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is the original hand written by Sheikh Muhammad Al-Ghāli Ba. The poem describes the life of Al-Hajj Umar Taal. It provides details about the patron's birth, his childhood, his education, adulthood, his rallying call to the people to Allah, his travels, his jihad campaigns in West ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
18 TIFF images

4. EAP1245/1/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/6
Title:
تاريخ الحاج عمر فوتيو
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a biography of Fulani Islamic leader Al Hajj Umar Taal (ca. 1794/7-1864). It narrates episodes in the birth, education, travels, and jihad campaigns of Al Hajj Umar Taal. Le manuscrit est une biographie du chef islamique peul Al Hajj Umar Taal (vers 1794 / 7-1864). Il raconte ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
44 TIFF images

5. 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

6. EAP1245/1/13

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/13
Title:
ا مهد يا لي من الخضراء غانية
Scope & Content:
The author saw beauty in the writings of Tunisian savant Daha Hussein and he decided to write a poem that would resemble Hussein's poetry. The manuscript contains 8 ghazal poems. The poem opens with a praise to a woman and ends with a description of the country of Tunisia. L'auteur a vu la beau...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
8 TIFF images

7. EAP1245/1/19

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/19
Title:
ديوان عبنل وازيل
Scope & Content:
This is a collection of Islamic exegetical texts originally authored by Mahmud Dia of the village of Pete. The text explores both the levels of Islamic knowledge in both literal and mystical dimensions. The present manuscript was handcopied by a Pulaar scholar named Abu Muhammad Adama Samba Dial...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
May 1982
Extent:
111 TIFF images

8. EAP1245/1/20

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/20
Title:
ضوأون 'الا هوروسي لاو انزالناهو
Scope & Content:
This document was created by Muhammad al-Ghāli Ba. The author was in death bed when composing the document. He composed as a salvation prayer from his death. The document was first composed by al-Ghāli Ba. The final line was composed by the author's brother Said Nur Bah. Ce document a été créé ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1991
Extent:
9 TIFF images

9. EAP1245/1/23

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/23
Title:
عاني سيد
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a collection of poetry composed by Muhammad Baba al-Alawi. The present text was commissioned by al-Ghāli Bah and was handcopied from an original by an unknown author. Ce manuscrit est un recueil de poésie composé par Muhammad Baba al-Alawi. Le présent texte a été commandé par...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
64 TIFF images

10. EAP1245/1/51

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/51
Title:
اذعوكا يا اؤانو
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a heterogenous collection of mystical work and an essay copied from an original. It is incomplete and was composed by Ahmad bun Shaykh Muhammad , Muhammad al-Ghāli Bah, and an unknown author. The content deals with Islamic knowledge, praise poetry, Sufi esotericism. Ce manusc...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
40 TIFF images