The dead ostrich. Life and trade in Ghadāmes (Libya) in the nineteenth century

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Titre

The dead ostrich. Life and trade in Ghadāmes (Libya) in the nineteenth century

Créateur

Haarmann, Ulrich Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

1998

Dans

Die Welt des Islams Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

This study deals with Ghadāmis and its filial colonies in the Sahel, in the Central Sahara and on the Mediterranean coast from 1830 to 1900. It was in this period that the slave trade, so important for the Ghadāmisī merchants, collapsed, largely as a result of increasing European pressure on the Sublime Porte, thus forcing the tradesmen of the oasis to look for other precious commodities to transport through the Sahara with the customary substantial profit.
The article is based on a collection of 150 private papers, discovered in the ancestral home of and then edited by Qāsim Yūshaʿ, a learned member of one of the notable Berber families of Ghadāmis. The Banū Yūshaʿ belong to the Berber subclan of the Banī Dirār. Whether legitimately or not, the Banū Dirār refer to the famous jurist Abū ‘l-Munīb Ism. b. Dirār al-Ghadāmisī (alive in 211/826. See Bābāʿammī et al. 2000a, vol. 2, 55-56, where: Darrār) as their ancestor and eponym who, together with other “bearers of knowledge” (Ḥamalat al-ʿIlm), brought the moderate Ibāḍī-Khārijī doctrine from the East to Tripolitania. See Jaʿbīrī, Farḥāt b. ʿAlī 2014b.
Particularly on pp. 51-65, the author dwells on Ibāḍī presence in Ghadāmis, with on pp. 54-55 a treatment of an Ittifāq of the leaders of the Ibāḍī community among the collection of papers, that is exactly the same as Mīzābī Ittifāqs.

Langue

eng

volume

38

numéro

1

pages

9-94

Source

Fonds Martin Custers Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Ibadica Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Haarmann, Ulrich, “The dead ostrich. Life and trade in Ghadāmes (Libya) in the nineteenth century”, 1998, bibliographie, consulté le 5 février 2025, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/6938