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In this work translations of four texts are provided from Ghadamis and from Mali. The first is a biography of the Ghadamisi scholar 'Abdallah b. Abi Bakr al-Ghadamisi (1626-1719 AD), written by the eighteenth-century author Ibn Muhalhil al-Ghadamisi. A second text is The History of al-Suq , concerning al-Suq, the historic town of Tadmakka and the original home of the Kel-Essouk Tuareg. The third text is The Precious Jewel in the Saharan histories of the 'People of the Veil' by Muhammad Tawjaw al-Suqi al-Thani, a contemporary Tuareg author. It pertains to the Kel-Essouk and their historical ties with the Maghreb and West Africa. The final text is a description of the Tuareg from the book Ghadamis, its features, its images and its sights by Bashir Qasim Yusha', published in Arabic in 2001 AD.

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Harry T. Norris (1926 - 2019) was Professor Emeritus of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of London. Before this he was Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at SOAS where he taught classical and modern Arabic from 1952-1995, and an associate Fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London.

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