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Place Futa, Africa Digitised Content Platform Endangered Archives Programme Level [40] File

1. 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

2. EAP1245/1/18

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/18
Title:
فؤ حركما
Scope & Content:
This is a manuscript by Muhammad al-Ghali Ba. It is poem written in ghazal style and it praises the Sufi tradition of spiritual seclusion, which the author describes as a way of knowledge acquisition. Il s'agit d'un manuscrit de Muhammad al-Ghali Ba. C'est un poème écrit dans le style ghazal et...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Pulaar
Date Range:
1980s
Extent:
19 TIFF images

3. 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

4. EAP1245/1/22

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/22
Title:
تفسراتل حبئبل فنئ
Scope & Content:
Details the biography of Morroccan Sufi guide Muhammad al Habib. It also describes the esteem that Senegalese Tijani authorities have for the descent of the order's founder, Shaykh Ahmad al-Tijani. Détaille la biographie du guide soufi marocain Muhammad al Habib. Il décrit également l'estime qu...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Nov 1978
Extent:
17 TIFF images

5. EAP1245/1/27

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/27
Title:
التاريح إبدول كادير قان
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a biography of Abdoul Qadr Kan of Senegal. It is one of a series of biographies that the author has written about Islamic leaders in West Africa. Ce manuscrit est une biographie d'Abdoul Qadr Kan du Sénégal. Elle fait partie d'une série de biographies que l'auteur a écrites s...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
11 TIFF images

6. EAP1245/3/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/3/2
Title:
الرماح حزب الرحيم علي نحور حزب الرجيم
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was composed by Al Hajj Umar Tāl and was completed on the third day of a month of Ramadan of the Islamic year 1244/1230. According to notes from the custodian, the manuscript's completion date is included in the text but is only encoded in the manuscript's title through some Arab...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
9 Mar 1829
Extent:
513 TIFF images