Essai de Bio-bibliographie Ibadite-Wahbite. Avant-propos

A discussion of Ibāḍī sources in the East and the West, with a list of works, among which six MSS in Lwów, which can be considered sources to come to a survey of Ibāḍī literature. Pp. 48-49: eleven MSS, almost all on theology and jurisprudence and by North African authors, have been deposited in 1883-1884 by Motylinski in the library of Algiers University. Forty MSS, most of them on history and by western and eastern authors, have been assembled by Smogorzewski for the library of the Jean Casimir University in Lwów and for the Oriental Institute of the same university. Pp. 50-51: a critical look at the shortcomings of Barrādī’s Kitāb al-Jawāhir al-Muntaqāt.