known as Ismāʿīl al-Walī, b. 1207/1792-93, d. 16 Rajab 1280/27 December 1863.
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MS: K. al-Nashʾa al-saniyya fī ’l-manāqib al-Ismāʿīliyya (see GAL S II, 895); Khartoum (NRO) Misc., 1/82/1310, 13 pp., undated.
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