The Ladder of Ascent in Obtaining the Procurements of the Sudan: Ahmad Baba Answers a Moroccan's Questions about Slavery
(معراج الصعود الى نيل مجلوب السودان)

Name: The Ladder of Ascent in Obtaining the Procurements of the Sudan: Ahmad Baba Answers a Moroccan's Questions about Slavery
Author: Tumbukti, Ahmad Baba ibn Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Muhammad Aqit

Title	The Ladder of Ascent in Obtaining the Procurements of the Sudan: Ahmad Baba Answers a Moroccan's Questions about Slavery
Title Original	معراج الصعود الى نيل مجلوب السودان
Author	Tumbukti, Ahmad Baba ibn Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Muhammad Aqit
Publication Date:	1615
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	2021667249
Record ID	22057190
Date	1615
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. Ahmad Baba ibn Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Muhammad Aqit al-Tumbukti discusses slavery as it existed in West Africa during the seventeenth century. The examination of the subject in Mi'rāj al-Ṣu'ūd ilá nayl Majlūb al-Sūdān (The ladder of ascent in obtaining the procurements of the Sudan: Ahmad Baba answers a Moroccan's questions about slavery) is based on Islamic law and it is noted that the fundamental and original nature of humanity is that individuals are free. They may be enslaved only under certain very specific conditions governed by Islamic law.
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The Ladder of Ascent in Obtaining the Procurements of the Sudan: Ahmad Baba Answers a Moroccan's Questions about Slavery

(معراج الصعود الى نيل مجلوب السودان)

Author Tumbukti, Ahmad Baba ibn Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Muhammad Aqit

Publication Date 1615

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 2021667249

Record ID 22057190

Date 1615

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. Ahmad Baba ibn Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Muhammad Aqit al-Tumbukti discusses slavery as it existed in West Africa during the seventeenth century. The examination of the subject in Mi'rāj al-Ṣu'ūd ilá nayl Majlūb al-Sūdān (The ladder of ascent in obtaining the procurements of the Sudan: Ahmad Baba answers a Moroccan's questions about slavery) is based on Islamic law and it is noted that the fundamental and original nature of humanity is that individuals are free. They may be enslaved only under certain very specific conditions governed by Islamic law.

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