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Nasir al-Din Abual-Abbas Ahmad ibn al-Hajj al-Amin al-Tawathi al-Ghalawi. Kashf al-Ghummah fi Nafa al-Ummah
(The Important Stars Among the Multitude of the Heavens),
copied 1733.
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (1)

Sayyid al-Mukhtar ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr al-Kuntial-Kabir.
Qasidah (Poem).
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (2)

al-Qadi Muhammad ibn al-Imam Uthman al-Wakari al-Tumbukti,
Sharh 'ala Amthilat al-Fara'id
(Commentary on the work Examples of Law).
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (3)

Ahmad ibn Bud ibn Muhammad al-Fullani.
Sullam al-Atfal fi Buyu al-Ajal
(The Protection of Individuals in Commercial Transactions).
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (4)

Sayyid al-Mukhtar ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr al-Kunti al-Kabir.
al-Minnah fi Itiqad Ahl al-Sunnah
(The Gift of the Followers of the Path of Muhammad),
copied 1809.
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (5)

Ahmad Baba ibn Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Muhammad Aqit al-Tumbukti.
Miraj al-Suud ila nayl Majlub al-Sudan
(Ahmad Baba Answers a Moroccan's
Questions about Slavery).
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (6)

al-Hajj Umar ibn Said al-Futi.
Rimah Hizb al-Rahim 'ala Nuhuri Hizb al-Rajim
(The Spear of the Merciful against the Throat of the Reviled),
copied 1858.
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (7)

Sayyid al-Mukhtar ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr al-Kunti al-Kabir.
Jizwat al-Anwar fi al-Dhabb an Manasib Awliya' Allah al-Akhyar
(The Flowers of Light in Defense of the Status of God's Chosen Saints),
copied 1858.
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Cheik Zani Baye Library, Boujbeha, Mali (8)

Sayf al-Din Ali ibn al-Amdi.
al-Mubin fi Mukhtasar Maani al-Alfaz al-Mutadawilah bayna al-Hukama' wa-al-Mutakallimin
(A Summary Explanation of the Pronouncements of the Scholars and Theologians)
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (9)

Ahkam al-Shira al-Yamaniyah wa-ma Yazharu min Hawadith fi al-Alam inda Zuhuriha fi Kull Sanah.
(Knowledge of the Movement of the Stars and What it Portends in Every Year).
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali(10)

Ahmad ibn Sulayman al-Rasmuki.
Kashf al-Hijab li-Asfiya' al-Ahbab an Ajnihat al-Righab fi Marifat al-Hisab
(Explanations of the Problems in Arithmetic with Examples).
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (11)

Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Misri.
Bughyat al-Talibin li-ma Tadammanatihu Umm al-Barahin.
(The Goal of Seekers, a Commentary on the Work The Mother of Proofs).
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Cheik Zani Baye Library, Boujbeha, Mali (12)

Arbab al-Khartumi.
al-Jawahir al-Hisan fi Marifat Arkan al-Iman
(The Jewel of Beauty for Education in the Pillars of the Faith).
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Cheik Zani Baye Library, Boujbeha, Mali (13)

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Karim al-Maghili.
As'ilat Askiyah wa-Ajwibat al-Maghili
(Maghili's Tract on Politics).
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (14)

'Uthman ibn Muhammad ibn 'Uthman ibn Fodyo.
Usul al-'Adl li-Wullat al-Umur wa-Ahl al-Fadl wa-al-Salatin
(The Administration of Justice for Governors, Princes and the Meritorious Rulers).
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (15)

Sayyid Ahmad ibn Amar al-Raqadi al-Tumbukti al-Kunti.
Shifa' al-Asqam al-Aridah fi al-Zahir wa-al-Batin min al-Ajsam
(Curing Diseases and Defects both Apparent and Hidden).
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (16)

Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Ahwazi.
al-Fawa'id wa-al-Qala'id
(Useful Stories and Verses).
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (17)

Sayyid al-Mukhtar ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr al-Kunti al-Kabir.
Risalah ila al-Qaba'il al-Mutaqatilin
(Letter to the Warring Tribes).
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (18)

Ahmad al-Bakayi ibn Sayyid Muhammad ibn Sayyid al-Mukhtar al-Kunti.
Jawab Ahmad al-Bakayi ala Risalat Amir al-Mu'minin Ahmad al-Masini
(The Response of Ahmad al-Bakayi to the Letter of Amir Ahmad, Ruler of Massinah),
eighteenth century.
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (19)

Anonymous,
Kitab al-Barakah fi Fadl al-Hiraf wa-al-Zar
(The Book Describing the Blessed Merits of Crafts and Agriculture).
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (20)

Commercial agreement.
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (21)

Commercial agreement.
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (22)

Certificate of emancipation for female slave.
Recto - Verso
Loaned by the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Timbuktu, Mali (23)

Abraham Ortelius.
"Africae Tabula Nova" (New Map of Africa),
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. (Theatre of the World).
Antwerp: G. von Diest, 1572.
Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (24)

Guinea propia, nec non Nigritiae vel Terrae Nigororum maxima pars: geographis hodiemis
dicta utraque Aethiopia inferior, & hujus quidem pars australis
(Guinea Proper, Not Including the Whole of Africa, but Only that Part Known
to the Geographers as Lower Ethiopia).
Nuremberg: Homannianorum Heredum, 1743.
[Enlarged]
Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (25)

Mali.
Washington D.C.: United States Central Intelligence Agency, 1994.
[Enlarged]
Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (26)

Allen Carpenter, Thomas O'Toole, and Mark LaPointe,
Enchantment of Africa: Mali.
Chicago: Children's Press, 1975.
General Collections, Library of Congress (27)

Africa's Glorious Legacy.
Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1994.
African Section Reference Collection,
African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (28)