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ARABIC  MSS  COLLECTION

A  full  descriptive  catalogue  of this material  is in course

of preparation.  The collection  now comprises almost five  hundred
items -  mainly  in xerox  copy.  The task of cataloguing  this material
is an arduous and time-consuming one,  involving not only the reading
of the  MSS,  but the search for other  MSS of  the same work  in this and
other collections,  the examination  of paper and watermarks,  the
identification  of authors and copyists,  etc. 
the first  catalogue  will  be  issued in the  course of this year. 
meantime,  for the  information of scholars working  in this field,  it has
been decided to publish  in each  issue of  Research Review a  selection
of entries  for MSS already  examined and catalogued.  Full details of
watermarks,  paper etc. will  be found from the accession card  index
which,  when completed,  will  be kept  in the  Library of the  Institute of
African  Studies.  The catalogue entries,  however,  of which we  list
forty  below,  are  intended only  to guide scholars as to whether a given
MSS  is or  is not of  relevance  to a particular  inquiry.

It  is hoped,  however,  that

In the

The MSS below were all  accessioned between  1960 and  1965,  in

the  IASAR series (Institute  of African  Studies Arabic).

Especial  thanks go to Or.  Bradford Martin  and Mr.  K.  Odoom for

the energy and time which they have contributed to the work of cataloguing.

Ivor Wilks

Iff*

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IASAR/1

ARABIC

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MAHMClD  B.CABDALLAH
QISSAT  SALGHA  TA'RIKH  GHUNJA
Accounts of  the campaigns of Jakpa,  King of  Gonja;
of the growth of Salaga; ant) of the civil  war  in Salaga,
1891/2.

54 folios.

AH  1350,  AD  1931, by al-Hajj  CAbdallah  "who  is under
the  Sultan of Alfay,  Muhammad  Kanakulay".
Kpembe. 
IASAR/6; / 2 6 1.  See also a  translation of a Hausa
version: J.  Withers  Gill,  A  Short History of Salaga,  1924.
See also translation  from the Arabic  by M.  Wakkad,  in
Ghana  Notes and Queries,  3,4. 

IASAR/15.

IASAR/18

ARABIC

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Notes:

I B T I D A ' D FN  WA"  fl  CAM  875 
Account of the state of  Islam in Wa,  with reference to
the  historical  connections between  the  ulama of Wa
and Kong.

ILA  CAM 

1382.

Wa. 

I  folio.

Apparently  an abstract,  made  in  1963 by  Imam SiddFq,
of a  longer work.

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IASAR/26 

ARABIC

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CALI  B.  MUHAMMAD  BARAW AL-SALGHAW7
MUNA'YA  MADlH  SHAYKHl  DHT  AL-SANA'I
Acrostic  poem in praise of Shaykh  Mahmud b.  Sa  icl
JalydT, a Tijam  muqaddam, with an additional  five verses
also  in his praise.
17 Rajab,  1339 = 27 March,  1921.
Kete  Krakye. 
IASAR/78  (which  has one additional verse).

2 folios.

IASAR/41

ARABIC

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List of twenty-three  sultans  of Daboya,  with  lengths
of reigns.

Daboya. 

I  folio,

..*-«

IASAR/42

ARABIC

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List of  chiefs of  Daboya.

Daboya. 

. 

2  folios.

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IASAR/45

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AL-AHB'ARI
History  of  Wa with  particular  reference  to  the  Widana
section.

5 folios.

Wa. 
IASAR/21
This work  is attributed  to  Malam  Ibrahim of  Jangbeyiri,
Wa,  by  his son,  Su layman.

IASAR/46

ARABIC

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List of  the  Imams of Wa  from Ya  muru to  Sa  Td, with  a
prayer  in  the  name of  each.

C 

C

Wa. 
IASAR/17,/61,/296,  (all  with  variant  readings).

2  folios.

IASAR/61

ARABIC

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DHIKR I M X M I NA 
List  of  Imams of Wa,  with  a  prayer  in  the  name of  each.

MIN WA

Wa. 
see  IASAR/17,/46,/61,/296  (all  with variant  readings).

2  folios.

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IASAR/62

ARABIC

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AL-rJAJJ  MUHAMMAD  B.  AL-MUSTAFA

Compilation  of  early  Gonja  traditions,  with a
chronicle of  events from the early  to mid-18rh  century

7 folios.

Buipe. 
IASAR/10//11//12//13//14//248(i)/272.
See also J.  Goody,  Ethnography  of the  Northern
territories of the  Gold Coast,  etc,  1954,  App.  IV.
This work appears on  internal  evidence  to have been
compiled  in or shortly after  1751/2.

IASAR/79

ARABIC

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ISNAD  AL-SODAN
(?)  Account of the origins of the Watara  in  Mecca,

and of their settlement  at  Bi  u and Kong.

Dormaa Ahenkro. 

I  folio.

Extremely  corrupt  text.

IASAR/80

ARABIC

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TA'RfKH  MULOK  AL-KUFFAR  Fl  AQALfM  BUNTUQ
List of twenty-two  kings of  Gyaman,  ending with Yeboah.

Dormaa Ahenkro.

I  folio.

A-m

•-*

KM.

"0

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IASAR/ 81

ARABIC

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List of seven  Kamaghatay  imams,  with  the duration of
each  imamate,  totalling  159 years.

Dormaa Ahenkro.

I  folio.

Apparently  the  Kamaghatay  of  Bonduku, though the
imamate  is now Ttmitay.

IASAR/90

ARABIC

Author:

MUHAMMAD  B.  Y ACQ 0B  AL-WATARA

Description:

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Elaboration  in TanV?0 form of a  poem (IASAR/88),  by
al-Hajj  Salih  al-Jawam  al-Tijani",  written  by Muhammad b.
Ya  qub for his student  Bakr b.  Hasan dl-Timiti.

Wench i.

3  folios.

IASAR/100

ARABIC

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MUHAMMAD  AL-SABBAN
'ILM AL-SHI'R  (MANZOMAT  AL-§ABBAN)
Didactic  poem giving  the  rules of prosody.

Bonduku.

4  folios.

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IASAR/101

ARABIC

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HADfTH AL-SHAFACA
Collection  of  traditions  attributed  to  Abdallah b.  a l-  Abbas
concerning  the day  of Judgement,  with  a long  charm on
the  last  page.

Boromo. 

6  folios.

IASAR/102

ARABIC

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Collection  of  hadlth  relating  to  the  Prophet,  without  isnad .

Boromo. 

8  folios.

IASAR/112

ARABIC

Author:

CALl  B.  MUHAMMAD  AL-SALGHAWT  known  as BARAW

Description:
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Acrostic  poem  in praise of  Ahmad  al-Tijam
27 Jumada  |#  1340 = 26 January,  1922.
Kete  Krakye. 
IASAR/I6(ix).

2  folios.

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IASAR/113

ARABIC

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Permission granted by al  Hajj  Umar b.  Abl Bakr
al-Kabawi  to Muhammad al-Thani  b.  Uthman Salagha
to use the  Tijanfwird.
15 Dhu al-qacdarn339  = 21 July,  1921.
Kete  Krakye. 

2 folios.

IASAR/148

ARABIC

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ASMA'MULUK AL-ASANTI
List of the kings of Ashanti  "as kept by the Shaykhs",
with mention of their wars;  on reverse  a short account
of the  ruling dynasties of  Mande.

Sunyani.

I  folio.

IASAR/151

ARABIC

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TA'RTKH TADHKIRAT  AL-AMMMA  fl  BILADINA  WA
History  of the kings and imams of Wa.
copy made  in  1963 of an undated work.
Obuasi. 

2 folios.

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IASAR/153

ARABIC

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ABO BAKR B.  AL-HUSAYN  B.  CABD  AL-QADIR
TIMITAY  (KARAMO  SUBRUNI)
QA$lDA  fl  CIB^DAT
Poem on devotion and worship,  rhyming  in  ayn.

Duayaw  Nkwanta. 

2  folios.

IASAR/164

ARABIC

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List of twelve West African  jjlama)  (?  17-18th
centuries)  and of the  towns they settled in on their
return  from Mecca.

Namasa.

Corrupt  text.

2  folios.

[ASAR/169

HAUSA

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YOSUFU  ABIN-NEMA

Topical  poem dealing  with events  in northern  Ghana
at  the  time of  European penetration,  with  references
to the Salaga civil  war,  etc.

Kete  Krakye.

2  folios.

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223

ARABIC

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Poem in praise of al-Hajj  Umar al-Futf  al-TijanT

Kumasi, 

2 folios.

IASAIV225

HAUSA

Author:
TftTsT"
Description:

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Admonition, with a silsila  for the author to  Uthman
dan Fodio.

Kintampo.

10 folios.

IASAR/233

HAUSA

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MUHAMMAD  BUKHARI son of  the  imam of Soko^o.

Poem in praist  of  Ahmadu Bello,  with a genealogy  of  the
Fodio family  to ai -Hasan, grandson of  the  Prcphet.

Kumasi.

2 folios.

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IASAR/241

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TA'RfKH  DAGHABAwI
History of the kings of  Dagomba, with obituaries and
notes in the margins  in various hands.

3 folios.

Yendi. 
IASAR/250
Apparently  compiled in its present form by Khalid  b.
Ya  qub,  Imam of Yendi  1915-35.

IASAR/249

ARABIC AND  HAUSA

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ASMA1  MULOK  MAN FURS F
List of the kings of Mamprusi, with some account of
their wars.

Gambaga.

3 folios.

IASAR/250

ARABIC

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TA'RfKH  DAGHABAwr
History of the kings of Dagomba.

2 folios.

Yendi. 
IASAR/241
Apparently  compiled  in  its present form by  Khalid  b.
Ya  qiib,  Imam of Yendi  1915-35.

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IASAR/252

ARABIC

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Lists of the chiefs of Bawku Zongo,  arid of the
imams of Bawku

Bawku.

I  fof io

HAUSA

Account of  relations between Jakpa,  king of the  Gonja,
and Osei Tutu,  king of Ashanti,  with a section on Jakpa
and the  pagans of  Krakye.

Salaga. 
IASAR/255  (Arabic  version).  See also  J.Goody,
Ethnography of the  Northern  Territories of the Gold Coast/
1954/  app.  xv.

3 folios.

IASAR/292

HAUSA

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Attributed orally  to  al-Hajj  CUmar b.  AblBakr of
Kete  Krakye.

Poem in praise of  Uthman"the  lion of  Kumasi"/  with
an exposition on the divine  basis of kingship.

Kete  Krakye. 

16 folios.

Apparently  in praise of  y«jm
Kumasi,  who died about  191$.

,  Sarkin  Zongo of

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IASAR/296

ARABIC

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DHIKR  I M A M J A K R I Y ON
List of the  imams of Wa with a prayer  in the name
of each,  with additional  genealogical  material  in
the margins  in a different  hand.

Obuasi.
IASAR/17;/46;/61

1 folio.

JASAR/307

ARABIC

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List of  13 Imams and  14 chiefs of Gushiegu.

Gushiegu.
IASAR/351.

2  folios.

IASAR/318

ARABIC

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List of the  Kamaghatay  imams of  Namasa

Namasa.
IASAV340(i).

1 folio.

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IASAR/322

HAUSA

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LABARIN HAUSA
The origins of the Hausa, with an account of the
spread of  Islam in Bornu and Hausaland.

Salaga.

8 folios.

IASAR/341

ARABIC

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List of eleven  imams of Dokrupe .

Dokrupe . 

1 folio.

Copy made 1964 from older MS.

IASAR/360

ARABIC

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AL-HAJJ  MUHAMMAD  AL-MUSTAft
KlfAB MfRA"TH
Compilation of the rules of Inheritance,  made at the
request of al-Hajj Alfa  °Uthmanal-Wanghan

Kumasi.

15 folios.

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IASAR/368

ARABIC

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Traditions/  without  isnad ,  concerning prayer,  fasting,
etc.,  apparently  extracts from a  longer collection.

Gambaga.

31 folios.

IASAR/376

ARABIC

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Genealogical  notes on the family of Ayyub al-Ansari
and 

Isa b.  Maryam (Jesus).

Larabanga.
See  IASAR/342.

2  folios.