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David Robinson
The Holy War of Umar Tal: the Western Sudan in the mid-nineteenth century

Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1985. 420 pages


Sources

A. Unpublished sources

A.1.b Centre d'Etudes, de Documentation et de Recherches Ahmed Baba Timbuktu, Mali.

This centre is the designated Malian repository for Arabic manuscripts. In the list below I have given only the documents of major importance to this study.

A.1.c Malian Arabic Manuscript Microfilm Project, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

This collection of microfilm copies was begun in 1976 and consists of materials photographed in Mali or in repositories in West Africa, North Africa, and Europe. Copies of the microfilms are also found at Indiana University, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In the list below I have given only the most important documents for this study.

Reel 6

Reel 7

Reel 8.4

Reel 9

Reel 10

A.I.d Institut Fondemental d'Afrique Noire, University of Dakar, Dakar, Senegal.

In the Islamic Department of IFAN, a number of manuscripts in Arabic, Fulfulde, and French translation exist in collections made during the colonial and post colonial era. I have mentioned only the most important documents for this study.

Fonds Vieillard

Section Fouta Dyalon, Documents historiques
Cahier 68, Divers Section Masina, Documents historiques

Fonds Brevié
Section Mauritanie, Documents historiques et religieux

Section Futa Toro
Fonds Shaykh Mousa Kamara

A.2 European archival documentation

A.2.2 Archives Nationales du Sénégal (Building administratif, Dakar)

A.2.3 Archives Nationales du Mali (Koulouba, Bamako, ANM)

A.2.4 Sierra Leone Archives (Fourah Bay, Freetown)
A.2.5 Church Missionary Society Archives (London), West Africa Mission, 1803-1914
A.3 Collections of oral tradition.

I have organized the oral material by the collector or interviewer, and subsequently by informant or location.

A.3.1 Collection of Ibrahima Barry of Bamako
(see chapter 8, note 5)

A.3.2 Collection of David Conrad in Mali

A.3.3 Collection of Philip Curtin in Senegal

This material is on deposit at IFAN in Dakar and at the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University.

A.3.4 Collection of Oudiary Makan Dantioko of Bamako (DNAFLA)
A.3.5 Collection of Richard Roberts in Mali.
A.3.6 Collection of David Robinson in Mali and Ivory Coast, 1976 and 1979.
A.3.7 Collection of David Robinson in Senegal and Mauritania. 1968-74

Note: the 1968/9 material is on deposit at IFAN, Dakar, and at the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University. For more detail on the 1968/9 material, see the 1969 and 1970 articles by Robinson in the bibliography.

A.4 Unpublished theses

B. Published sources

B.1 Official and Semi-Official French Publications
B.2 Publications of Documents
B.3 Sources Published in The Nineteenth Century

B.4 Sources published in the Twentieth Century