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Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Jalīl b. Ghayth b. Aḥmad b. Ṣayf al-Naṣr
(80 words)

Sources

GAL S II, 895; Kaḥḥāla, x, 10; A ʿlām, vi, 185.

Biography

A son of the last independent ruler of the Fezzan, ʿAbd al-Jalīl, who fell at the battle of Baghla in 1842.

Works

1. Riyy al-jalīl fī akhbār Banī ʿAbd al-Jalīl.

MS: Paris (BN) 1893.

Written in Paris in 1862: the relationship between this work and the transl. published by Subtil (1844), 3-30, has yet to be established.

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“Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Jalīl b. Ghayth b. Aḥmad b. Ṣayf al-Naṣr”, in: Arabic Literature of Africa Online, General Editor John O. Hunwick, R.S. O’Fahey. Consulted online on 09 December 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2405-4453_alao_COM_ALA_10002_7_2>
First published online: 2016



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