The Response of Ahmad al-Bakayi to the Letter of Amir Ahmad, Ruler of Massinah
(جواب أحمد البكايي على رسالت أمير المؤمنين أحمد الماسيني)

Name: The Response of Ahmad al-Bakayi to the Letter of Amir Ahmad, Ruler of Massinah
Author: Bākī ibn Sayyid Muḥammad ibn Sayyid al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī, Aḥmad

Title	The Response of Ahmad al-Bakayi to the Letter of Amir Ahmad, Ruler of Massinah
Title Original	جواب أحمد البكايي على رسالت أمير المؤمنين أحمد الماسيني
Author	Bākī ibn Sayyid Muḥammad ibn Sayyid al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī, Aḥmad
Publication Place	- [publisher not identified]
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	1 online resource.
Library:	Library of Congress
Library Asset ID	2021667261
Record ID	22057231
Sample Text	Timbuktu (present-day Tombouctou in Mali), founded around 1100 as a commercial center for trade across the Sahara Desert, was also an important seat of Islamic learning from the 14th century onward. The libraries there contain many important manuscripts, in different styles of Arabic scripts, which were written and copied by Timbuktu's scribes and scholars. These works constitute the city's most famous and long-lasting contribution to Islamic and world civilization. This document is a reply to the ruler of Massinah (present-day Macina), Amir Ahmad, who ordered the arrest of the noted German explorer Heinrich Barth (1821--65), who was suspected of spying for the British. There are two copies of the work: a shorter version, and a longer version, which incorporates information not given in the shorter. Shown here is the shorter version. The author of the reply cites Islamic law in arguing that the arrest is illegal and declines to obey the amir. The scholar states that a non-Muslim entering the domain of Muslims in peace is protected and may not be arrested, have his property confiscated, or to be otherwise hindered.
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The Response of Ahmad al-Bakayi to the Letter of Amir Ahmad, Ruler of Massinah

(جواب أحمد البكايي على رسالت أمير المؤمنين أحمد الماسيني)

Author Bākī ibn Sayyid Muḥammad ibn Sayyid al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī, Aḥmad

Publication Place - [publisher not identified]

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital No

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions 1 online resource.

Library Library of Congress

Library Asset ID 2021667261

Record ID 22057231

Sample Text Timbuktu (present-day Tombouctou in Mali), founded around 1100 as a commercial center for trade across the Sahara Desert, was also an important seat of Islamic learning from the 14th century onward. The libraries there contain many important manuscripts, in different styles of Arabic scripts, which were written and copied by Timbuktu's scribes and scholars. These works constitute the city's most famous and long-lasting contribution to Islamic and world civilization. This document is a reply to the ruler of Massinah (present-day Macina), Amir Ahmad, who ordered the arrest of the noted German explorer Heinrich Barth (1821--65), who was suspected of spying for the British. There are two copies of the work: a shorter version, and a longer version, which incorporates information not given in the shorter. Shown here is the shorter version. The author of the reply cites Islamic law in arguing that the arrest is illegal and declines to obey the amir. The scholar states that a non-Muslim entering the domain of Muslims in peace is protected and may not be arrested, have his property confiscated, or to be otherwise hindered.

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