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
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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
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"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.
A poem by the Moroccan ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Lamṭī al-Maghribī al-Miknāsī al-Fāsī al-Mālikī (born c. 1475) on the sīrah (life) of the Prophet Muḥammad. Colophon blank.
An instructional book split into sections dealing with life, death, angels, judgement, heaven and hell, the signs of judgement, et cetera. First sections lost.
An incomplete copy of the maqāmāt of Abū Muḥammad Ibn al-Qāsim al-Ḥarīrī al-Baṣrī (1054-1122). A maqāma is a literary work of rhymed prose, of which al-Ḥarīriī's is the best known.