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Project / Collection Pulaar Islamic Texts: Six Archives of the Taal Families in Senegal and Mali Archive Reference (shelfmark) EAP1245/1 Subject Biography

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. EAP1245/1/16

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/16
Title:
Ibn ibādi
Scope & Content:
The manuscript was composed by Muhammad al-Ghali Ba. It contains two pamphlets. The first is about the life of Ahmad Ibn Ibādi popularly known as Ceerno Hammadi Mali Si. The author wrote the biography of Ibn Ibādi, a blind man from Senegal's Fūta region to show that there had been non-Arab knowl...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1977
Extent:
39 TIFF images

3. EAP1245/1/17

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/17
Title:
دق مئجم ء ما
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is composed by Mountaga Muhammad al-Ghālī Bā. It is composed of five qasīda poems. The first poem praises the Prophet Muhammad. The second poem is also composed in praise of Prophet Muhammad. The third poem praises Alhajj Umar. The fourth talks about the yearly pilgrimage of Sene...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Pulaar
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
25 TIFF images

4. EAP1245/1/53

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/53
Title:
الحمد لله وهداهو
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a mixed collection of biographical and mystical notes authored by Muhammad al-Ghāli Bah. The biography details the life of the author's father named Mamadu Al-Amin Bah. Ce manuscrit est une collection mixte de notes biographiques et mystiques rédigées par Muhammad al-Ghāli Ba...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
21 TIFF images