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51. 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

52. EAP1245/1/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/5
Title:
قصيدة في مدح رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is essentially a praise poem dedicated to Prophet Muhammad. The poem is based on one meter and rhyme. Towards the end, it incorporates a few lines borrowed from famous Senegalese Sufi Sufi leader Abdoul Aziz Sy of the Tijaniyya Muslim Brotherhood. Le manuscrit est essentiellement...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Dec 1978
Extent:
12 TIFF images

53. 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

54. 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

55. 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

56. EAP1245/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1245/1/1
Title:
الجوهر اللامع في مدح الشافع صلي الله عليه وسلم
Scope & Content:
As explained by the manuscript holder, the original author wrote the manuscript during one of his many stays in northern Nigeria where he had Sufi followers and friends. He used paper provided to him by the Directopr's office at the Alfa Umaru Ibrahim Institute (Northern Nigeria). The manuscript...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1988
Extent:
46 TIFF images