Author
Palmer, H. R. (Herbert Richmond), 1877-1958 [ed. and tr]
Publication Date
1928
Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Translations into English, Manuscripts, African -- Translations into English, Sudan -- History -- Sources
Type
Book
Language
ara,eng
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
3
Physical Dimensions
3 v. plates, port., maps (part fold.) 25 cm.
Library
Harvard Library
Library Asset ID
990014359500203941
Record ID
01HVD_ALMA211809237200003941
Library Location
WIDENER LIBRARY OLD WIDENER (AFR 5219.28 )
Date
1928
Notes
"The mss. which are translated in these volumes have been obtained at different times and in different places in the western Sudan during the past twenty-four years. The text of the 'Kanem war of Idris Alooma' is the one procured by the traveller Barth in 1853 and sent by him to the British Foreign office, as was its companion ms. 'A history of the first twelve years of the reign of Mai Idris Alooma' ... Many of the others are anonymous and some may be said to represent merely oral tradition."--Pref.
Sample Text
v. 1. Introduction to Kanem wars of Mai Idris Alooma -- The Kanem wars / by Imam Ahmed ibn Fartua -- Notes on the text -- Name index (manuscript pages). -- v. 2. Introduction to translations of Arabic manuscripts -- 1. Kingdoms of the Barbar and Ifarik. Yakubi 891 A.D. -- 2. A passage from a native chronicla of Wadai. -- 3. Bulala Girgam : their well established descent from the Arabs of Yaman as recorded. -- 4. N'gizam and Bulala. -- 5. The Bulala secession from the Mais of Kanem. -- 5a. List of Bulala Mais of Kanem. -- 5b. Origin of the Bulala Kings of Fitri according to the manuscript of Sarkin Gulfei. -- 6. The war between the Bulala and Saifawa. -- 7. The story of the Mai Dunama Dabalemi of N'jimi and his father-in-law the Amir of the Bulala called Mai Bulalama Umr. -- 8. Sultan Idris and the Bulala. -- 9. Mai Daud. -- 10. (Jatku) Yatku and Bulala. -- 11. Short Bulala Girgam. -- 12. Bulala (Kayi) Girgam by Mallam Kazalla Darmanmi. -- 13. The Bulala Wars. -- 14. Middle Ifrikia. -- 15. The children of Tubba'ul Awwal. -- 16. The Kisara Migration. -- 17. The So. -- 18. The So Dala N'gumami. -- 19. Dunama Dabalemi and the Kwana. -- 20. Kings of the land of Fikka. -- 21. Book of Blacksmiths. -- 22. The Bade Tribes. -- 23. The Bade and N'guzum. -- 24. Garun Doili. -- 25. Gau Dala Shâliwa. -- 26. Gujba Girgam. -- 27. The peoples of Bornu (Gujba manuscript). -- 28. The legend of the five tribes of Kanem. -- 29. The story of the seven tribes of Kanem. -- 30. Translation of a passage from the Tohfut-ul-Albâbi relating to the Sudan. -- 31. Wanderings of the Saifawa. -- 32. Mandara Chronicle. -- 33. The words of Zanua Digeltima Tahir, called Zanua Sidigima, who is ninety-seven years old (1918). -- 34. The story of N'dif (N'difu). -- 35. Mai Dugu Bremmi and the connection of the M'bum and Gwana with the Kanuri. -- 36. Mai Dugu Bremmi and the M'bum. -- 37. Bagarmi Chronicle. -- 38. Babaliya Girgam. -- 39. The story of Masbarma and Mai Muhammad Hajimi. -- 40. Masfarma. -- 41. The story of Mai Tsilim Hawami. -- 42. The story of the coming of Sultan Kwana to fight at N'gazargamu i the time of Sultan Ali Garukurugama. -- 43. The Zanua of Wukari's Magumi Girgam. -- 44. The end of the Saifawa dynasty. --, v. 3. 45. Mahram of Umme Jilmi circa 1080 A.D.--the introduction of Islam into Bornu. -- 46. Tura Mahrams. -- 47. Mahram of the N'gamla Duku. -- 48. Mahram of the Masbarma family. -- 49. Mahram of Mai Ali Gaji Dunamami, 1471. 50. Mahram of Idris Katagarmabe circa 1504 A.D. -- 51. Mahram of Mai Ahmad 1793. -- 52. Old Bornu towns. -- 53. The Kayi (Bulala) and Magumi. -- 54. Girgams of the Kanembu tribes. -- 55. Translation of Saifawa Girgam in possession of Galadima Kashim Biri. -- 56. A list of Mais of Bornu down to 1808 A.D. with approximate dates. - 57. The Sultanate of Ahir. -- 58. Chronicle of the Sultanate of Ahir and notes on the Barbars and Fulani. -- 59. History of Katsina and note. 60. The Kano Chronicle. -- 61. Notes on the history of Daura (Walwyn).
Biçim / tür
History, Sources
Kaynak
HVD - Core
Başlık
Sudanese memoirs. Being mainly translations of a number of Arabic manuscripts relating to the central and western Sudan,
