Results | Kerko

The permanent Muslim population of Algiers and the Jewish community, as well as the Barrāniyya (people from outside the city) are mentioned. The Barrāniyya were organized in six corporations: people from Mīzāb, Biskra, Djidjilī, Laghouat, the tribe of Mzīṭa, and the liberated blacks. Sources for this study have been: books of travellers and foreign consuls residing in Algiers in the period in question (end 17th century-1830), registers of the Turkish government of Algiers, including the Tachrifāt, and documents and official publications of the first years of the French occupation.

Read document

Lewicki, T. (1983). Études maghrébines et soudanaises (Vol. 2). Editions Scientifiques de Pologne. Fonds Martin Custers.

The three studies in this second volume treat Arab voyages to the Canaries in the 10th-14th centuries on the basis of contemporary Arabic sources (pp. 9-31); the word Mansa, which was the title of the old kings of the Mandinga state of Mali (32-41); the role of the eastern and northern Sahara in the establishment of relations between Egypt and North Africa on one side, and western Sudan on the other side, in the High Middle Ages. The latter part deals also with the role Berber-Ibāḍī tribes played in establishing relations between Islamic North Africa and the Sudan (42-96).

Read document

الحرير, ا. ص. (1983). العلاقات الأقتصادية والثقافية ببن الدولة الرستمية وبلدان جتوب الصحراء الكبرى وائرها في نشر الإسلام هناك. مجلة البحوث التاريخية, 5(1), 75–87. Fonds Martin Custers.

Cuoq, J. (1983). Notes de lecture. Revue de l’Institut des Belles Lettres Arabes, 46(151), 135–140. Fonds Martin Custers.

French translation of pp. 517-518 of Ṭallāy’s edition of Darjīnī’s K. Ṭabaqāt al-Mashāyikh. (See Ṭallāy 1974). Translation of pp. 457-458 of Shammākhī’s K. al-Siyar. Translation from al-Bakrī’s K. al-Masālik wa’l-Mamālik. All three texts treat the conversion to Islam of the king of Mali.

Cuperly, P. (1983). ʿAqīdat Abī Sahl Yaḥyà/La ʿAqīda d’Abū Sahl Yaḥyà. Cahiers de Tunisie, (123–124), 55–119. Fonds Martin Custers.

Edition and translation. Arabic text pp. 41-47, an introduction (much the same as Cuperly 1979, 67-74); text of the ʿAqīda: pp. 48-69, 55-84; French translation of the ʿAqīda: pp. 70-94, 85-119.

Landau, J. M. (1983). An Arabic source for late Ottoman history. In J.-L. Bacqué-Grammont & P. Dumont (Eds.), Économie et sociétés dans l’empire ottoman (fin du XVIIIe-début du XXe siècle). Actes du Colloque de Strasbourg (1er-5 juillet 1980) (pp. 61–107). Centre national de la recherche scientifique. Fonds Martin Custers.

Arabic text and translation of a trip of al-Sayyid Ḥumūd b. Aḥm. b. Sayf al-Būsaʿīdī (MS in the British Library, MS Or. 8085/25). French abstract on p. 61. A preliminary report on this MS was published in Osmanlı Araştırmaları (Istanbul), I (1980), 133-136. Travel accounts written by local people can constitute important sources for the conditions of life in the Ottoman Empire. Such is the case with the MS Riḥlat al-Sayyid Ḥumūd b. Aḥm. b. Sayf al-Būsaʿīdī, written by an Arab Muslim from Zanzibar. It comprises 42 folios, 16,7x14 cm., 12 lines to each page. The literary Arabic in which the account is written is marred by errors of syntax, accidence and spelling and is interspersed with colloquialisms borrowed from the vernacular of Zanzibar. The author started out from Zanzibar on 26 Shawwāl 1288/8 Jan. 1872. He travelled first to the Ḥijāz to perform the Ḥajj. Then he visited Egypt, Palestine and Syria, reaching as far north as Damascus. Lastly, he returned to Beirut and sailed back to Port Said, where he spent fourteen days waiting for an Ottoman ship to take him home via Suez and Jeddah. Al-Būsaʿīdī is an alert traveller who realistically observes local customs, especially those related to religion. No less relevant, he has noted down a not inconsiderable number of data expressed in facts and figures. He also gives advice on how to travel.

Abou-El-Haj, R. (1983). An Agenda for Research in History: The History of Libya between the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 15(3), 305–319. Fonds Martin Custers. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800050947

It is perhaps premature to spell out priorities of research in the history of Libya, since bibliographies of what has already been written have not been systematically read, nor even adequately compiled and indexed. The following observations and analyses are, of necessity, based on a cursory reading in a list—compiled by the author on the history of the Arab world and Ottoman Empire (sixteenth through nineteenth centuries)—of some 500 studies done since the 1950s by Arab scholars and historians. The fifties are taken as the period which signalled the achievement of political independence by the Arab States. I realize that individual scholars will be able to make exceptions here or ther to the observations, generalizations, and criticisms which are made in this study. The very exceptions, however, point to the dearth of modern critical scholarship on the history of Libya from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. However, the exceptions which one could point out as models for research to be done, do not in and of themselves amount to trends in research. To date, available histories of Libya are, in the main, focused on political if not outright dynastic history. The focus is usually placed on the peculiarities and the anomalies of political history rather than the primary similarities which make for comparative history. In the remainder of this paper we offer a novitiate's priorities for research under five headings.

Saʿdī, J. b. K. al-. (1983). Qāmūs al-Sharīʿa al-ḥāwī Ṭuruqahā al-Wasīʿa (ʿAbd al-Ḥafīz Shalabī, Ed.; Vols. 1–19). Ministry of National Heritage and Culture. Fonds Martin Custers.

Sulaymī, A. ʿUbayyid Ḥamad ʿUbayyid b. M. al-Azdī al-Samā’ilī. (1983). al-ʿIqd al-Thamīn fī Aḥkām al-Daʿwa wa’l-Yamīn. Ministry of National Heritage and Culture. Fonds Martin Custers.

Read document

Sitālī, A. B. A. b. S. al-Kharūṣī al-. (1983). Maqāṣid al-Abrār ʿalà Maṭāliʿ al-Anwār. Ministry of National Heritage and Culture. Fonds Martin Custers.