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Leaves from the Qur'an of the Grand Imam Yousouf (N'Guigmi, Niger, 2010)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Publisher:  Clan Ledger
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  [various sizes]
Subjects:  Watermarks
دمغ بعلامة مائية
Filigranes
Wasserzeichen
Clan Ledger (paper manufacturer)
عشيرة ليدجر (الصانع ورقة)
Clan Ledger (fabricant de papier)
Clan Ledger (Papierhersteller)
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

تخميس العشرينيات  

Publication Date:  [18th century?]
Publisher:  holographic manuscript
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  23 cm.
Subjects:  Takhmis
Devotional poetry, Arabic
الشعر تعبدي العربية
Poésie de dévotion arabe
Arabisch hingebungsvollen Poesie
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Unidentified item  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

[Qawāʿid al-ṣalāt]  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Alhaji Abba Ibn al-Māhir ʿamma (son of Goni Amma) from Lamisulā Yafatori who was the student of Sheikh Goni Kaltumi
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  22 cm.
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Kitab Al-Shifa Bi Ta'Rif Huquq Al-Mustafa = Healing by the Recognition of the Reality of the Chosen One (Jos MS 397)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  ʿIyāḍ Ibn-Mūsā 1083-1149
القاضي عياض، 476-544 هـ
عياض بن موسى، 1083-1149
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  6.6 x 9.25 cm.
Subjects:  Kitab Ash-shifa bi Ta'rif Huquq al-Mustafa
Sīrat Rasūl Allāh
سيرة رسول الله
Sîra
Sira (Islam)
Prophetic biography
السيرة النبوية
as-Siratu 'n-Nabawiyya
Life of the Messenger of God
سيرة
Sîrah
Islamischen Historiographie
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

[al-ʿaqāʾid al-tawḥīdiyya and 99 beautiful names of Allah]  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Ibrāhīm, the student of Alhaji al-Māhir (Goni) Abūbakar Wujeu (Wujô)
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  22 cm.
Subjects:  Théologie islamique
Islamische Theologie
Dogma
Dogma -- Nigeria
Théologie islamique -- Nigéria
Islamische Theologie -- Nigeria
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Poem by Muḥammad Sāliḥ bn Marḥūmi  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Muḥammad Sāliḥ bn Marḥūmi
Adam ibn Ibrahim
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  28 cm.
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Man In The Moon Watermark from the Grand Imam Yousouf manuscript collection (N'Guigmi, Niger, 2010)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Measurements:  [various sizes]
Subjects:  Watermarks
دمغ بعلامة مائية
Filigranes
Wasserzeichen
Moon in art
القمر في الفن
Lune dans l'art
Mond in der Kunst
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Amulet  

Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

Mukhtaṣar al-Akhḍārī fī ʾl-ʿibādāt ʿalā madhhab al-imām Mālik by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad al-Ṣaghīr al-Akhḍārī al-Bunṭyūsī al-Mālikī (d. 1585)  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  19 cm.
Subjects:  Qur'an
القرآن الكريم
Coran
Koran
Qurʼan -- Commentaries
القرآن الكريم - تفسير
Coran -- Commentaires
Koran -- Kommentare
Qurʼan -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Nigeria
القرآن الكريم - نقد، تفسير، الخ - نيجيريا
Coran -- Critique, interprétation, etc -- Nigéria
Koran -- Kritisch, Auslegung, usw. -- Nigeria
Qur'an. Kanembu.
Coran. Kanembou.
Koran. Kanembu
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

[majmūʿ khams kutub] Miscellany manuscript  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Aḥmad al-Mukhtār Walīd al-Māhir (Goni) [?]
Abu Bukor Gonimi of Maiduguri
Al-Ḥājj Abū Bakr Qāsim Bāba Mrm ? (Maiduguri)
Publisher:  Northern Marianai Press, LTD.
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  22 cm.
Subjects:  miscellany
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

[Imam Kura Nguigmibe, seated, with child]  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Subjects:  Imams
أئمة
Imame
Nguigmibe, Kura, Grand Imam
Children
طفل
Enfants
Kinder
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

[Short creed based on Umm al-Barāhīn by Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (1437-1480) of Tlemcen]  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Creator:  Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1427-approximately 1490
سنوسي، محمد بن يوسف، حوالي 1427-حوالي 1490
السنوسي، محمد بن يوسف
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  12 x 16 cm.
Subjects:  Théologie islamique
Islamische Theologie
Dogma -- Islamic theology
اللاهوت الإسلامي -- توحيد ــ شرح‎
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London

A [treatise on fiqh]  

Publication Date:  [n.d.]
Material:  Paper
Measurements:  27.5 cm.
Source Institution:  SOAS, University of London
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