[LIBYA TRIPOLITANIA / THE MOST IMPORTANT ARABIC SOURCE ON THE HISTORY OF LIBYA / AUTOGRAPHED COPYTârîkh Ṭarâbulus al-Gharb, al-musammâ al-Tadhkâr... Tarâbulus wa-mâ kâna bihâ min al-aḥbâr [i.e., The history of Tripoli of the West, entitled al-Tadhkâr...

COMPLETE TITLE: [LIBYA TRIPOLITANIA / THE MOST IMPORTANT ARABIC SOURCE ON THE HISTORY OF LIBYA / AUTOGRAPHED COPY] تاريخ طرابلس الغرب، المسمى، التذكار فيمن ملك طرابلس وما كان بها من الأحبار / Târîkh Tarâbulus al-Gharb, al-musammâ al-Tadhkâr fî man malaka Ṭarâbulus wa-mâ kâna bihâ min al-aḥbâr [i.e., The history of Tripoli of the West, entitled al-Tadhkâr, concerning those who ruled Tripoli and the scholars who lived there].

IBN GHALBUN (Muhammad ibn Khalil ibn Ahmad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Ghalbun al-Misrati) (17th century).

Al-Maṭba’a al-Salafiyya wa-Maktabatuhâ [i.e., The Salafist Press and Library], Cairo, 1930.

Original burgundy cloth with inlaid decorations on both boards, gilt lettering on spine, original European endpapers. Large roy. 8vo. (25 x 16,5 cm). In Arabic. [15], [1 blank page], 232 p. Al-Trablusî personal stamp on title page. Overall, a fine copy.

Commercially scarce autographed copy of this historical commentary on a poem by Aḥmad b. 'Abd al-Daâ’im al-Ansârî in praise of Tripoli in Africa. Edited, with an introduction and index, by al-Tâhir Ahmad al-Zâwî. Signed and inscribed by Ahmad al-Zâwî (1890-1986). Al-Tadhkâr is regarded as the earliest and most important foundational source for the history of Libya to this day. (Talisî).

The reason for composing al-Tadhkār was to provide a commentary on a poem by Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim al-Anṣārī, written in response to the Moroccan traveller Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAbdarī, who had satirized Tripoli following a dispute between him and its judge, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Sayyid. The author begins his book by explaining the poem, then proceeds to discuss Libya and describe Tripoli, addressing the entry of the Berbers into Cyrenaica and the Maghrib, the conquest of Cyrenaica by ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, followed by Tripoli, and the advance toward the Nafusa Mountains in the west. The narrative continues up to the era of Aḥmad Pasha al-Qaramanli. The book thus constitutes a detailed historical commentary on Tripoli and its conditions from the time of the first Islamic conquest to the reign of Aḥmad Pasha al-Qaramanli.

OCLC: 851421938 & 23506754.