Box 5
Container
Contains 46 Results:
Letter from someone in the Tagant to Umar, Reel 5442, 182-4
File — Box: 5, Folder: 1
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Umarian library of Segu, also called the Fonds Archinard, is housed at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. The material was brought from Segu, the main Umarian capital, by Colonel Louis Archinard after capturing the city in 1890. The BNP bound the volumes and put them at the disposition of researchers in the early 20th century in the Fonds Arabe. There are 518 volumes in all, and 491 of them are consecutive from volume 5259 of the Fonds Arabe to volume 5749. The volumes vary...
Dates:
approximately 1960-2009
Letters from the 1860s announcing the achievements of the Umarian jihad and Ahmad al-Kabir, Reel 5442, 182-4, approximately 1860-1869
File — Box: 5, Folder: 2
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents
Some of this is found in Jules Salenc, “La vie d’Al Hadj Omar. Traduction d’un manuscrit arabe de la Zaouia Tidjania de Fez,” Bulletin du CEHSAOF, 1918.
Dates:
approximately 1860-1869
Poetry and correspondence, Reel 5519
File — Box: 5, Folder: 4
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents
A significant amount of poetry and correspondence by Umar, al-Bakkay and Yirkoy Talfi, including 51-3, poem in praise of conquest of Segu
Dates:
approximately 1960-2009
Various letters and poetry, associated with Ahmad al-Tijani (probably of Bandiagara), Reel 5484, 117-120
File — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Umarian library of Segu, also called the Fonds Archinard, is housed at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. The material was brought from Segu, the main Umarian capital, by Colonel Louis Archinard after capturing the city in 1890. The BNP bound the volumes and put them at the disposition of researchers in the early 20th century in the Fonds Arabe. There are 518 volumes in all, and 491 of them are consecutive from volume 5259 of the Fonds Arabe to volume 5749. The volumes vary...
Dates:
approximately 1960-2009
Poem of Umar Jeliya, Reel 5561, 4-5
File — Box: 5, Folder: 6
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Umarian library of Segu, also called the Fonds Archinard, is housed at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. The material was brought from Segu, the main Umarian capital, by Colonel Louis Archinard after capturing the city in 1890. The BNP bound the volumes and put them at the disposition of researchers in the early 20th century in the Fonds Arabe. There are 518 volumes in all, and 491 of them are consecutive from volume 5259 of the Fonds Arabe to volume 5749. The volumes vary...
Dates:
approximately 1960-2009
Material on reign of Ahmad al-Kabir, including 66-9, fatwa of al-Hajj Sa`id on the revolts of the brothers of Ahmad al-Kabir, Reel 5561, 63-73
File — Box: 5, Folder: 7
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Umarian library of Segu, also called the Fonds Archinard, is housed at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. The material was brought from Segu, the main Umarian capital, by Colonel Louis Archinard after capturing the city in 1890. The BNP bound the volumes and put them at the disposition of researchers in the early 20th century in the Fonds Arabe. There are 518 volumes in all, and 491 of them are consecutive from volume 5259 of the Fonds Arabe to volume 5749. The volumes vary...
Dates:
approximately 1960-2009
Poems of Umar Jeliya, Reel 5573, 10-13
File — Box: 5, Folder: 8
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Umarian library of Segu, also called the Fonds Archinard, is housed at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. The material was brought from Segu, the main Umarian capital, by Colonel Louis Archinard after capturing the city in 1890. The BNP bound the volumes and put them at the disposition of researchers in the early 20th century in the Fonds Arabe. There are 518 volumes in all, and 491 of them are consecutive from volume 5259 of the Fonds Arabe to volume 5749. The volumes vary...
Dates:
approximately 1960-2009
Umar’s responses to questions, Reel 5573, 54-61
File — Box: 5, Folder: 9
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Umarian library of Segu, also called the Fonds Archinard, is housed at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. The material was brought from Segu, the main Umarian capital, by Colonel Louis Archinard after capturing the city in 1890. The BNP bound the volumes and put them at the disposition of researchers in the early 20th century in the Fonds Arabe. There are 518 volumes in all, and 491 of them are consecutive from volume 5259 of the Fonds Arabe to volume 5749. The volumes vary...
Dates:
approximately 1960-2009
Poetry, Reel 5573, 177-9
File — Box: 5, Folder: 11
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Umarian library of Segu, also called the Fonds Archinard, is housed at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. The material was brought from Segu, the main Umarian capital, by Colonel Louis Archinard after capturing the city in 1890. The BNP bound the volumes and put them at the disposition of researchers in the early 20th century in the Fonds Arabe. There are 518 volumes in all, and 491 of them are consecutive from volume 5259 of the Fonds Arabe to volume 5749. The volumes vary...
Dates:
approximately 1960-2009
Collection of letters of Ahmad al-Tijani to disciples at Fez, Reel 5577, 102-15
File — Box: 5, Folder: 12
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Umarian library of Segu, also called the Fonds Archinard, is housed at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. The material was brought from Segu, the main Umarian capital, by Colonel Louis Archinard after capturing the city in 1890. The BNP bound the volumes and put them at the disposition of researchers in the early 20th century in the Fonds Arabe. There are 518 volumes in all, and 491 of them are consecutive from volume 5259 of the Fonds Arabe to volume 5749. The volumes vary...
Dates:
approximately 1960-2009