Ghadāmisī, Aḥmad al-Bakkāʼī ibn ʻĪṣá, active 19th century
The son of a prominent merchant in Timbuktu, he took over the family trading business after the death of his father sometime in the early 1880s.
- HMML ID
- 627945519032
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- LC name
- Ghadāmisī, Aḥmad al-Bakkāʼī ibn ʻĪṣá, active 19th century
- HMML name
- Ghadāmisī, Aḥmad al-Bakkāʼī ibn ʻĪṣá, active 19th century
- HMML native script
- الغدامسي، أحمد البكائي بن عيسى
- Library of Congress
- VIAF
Variants
- Aḥmad al-Bakkāʼī ibn ʻĪṣá ibn Aḥmayd
- أحمد البكائي بن عيسى بن أحميد
Personal information
- Centuries
- 19th century CE
- Gender
- Males
- Place residence
- Associated countries
- Occupations
- Fields of activity
- Languages
Personal relationships
- Family
- Parents
- Siblings
- Associates
- Samba ʻĪsá, active 19th century (Slave and half-sibling?)
- N'jī ʻĪsá, active 19th century (Slave and half-sibling?)
General notes
- Description
- أحمد البكائي بن عيسى بن أحميد =Aḥmad al-Bakkāʼī ibn ʻĪṣá ibn Aḥmayd
- Citations
- SAV BMH 34270, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library.
- Description
- Aḥmad al-Bakkāy, son of ʻIsa; referred to Anjay as his 'brother' and then as 'the slave of his father'
- Citations
- Bruce S. Hall, "How Slaves Used Islam: The Letters of Enslaved Muslim Commercial Agents in the Nineteenth-Century Niger Bend and Central Sahara," Journal of African History 52, no. 3 (2011): 295, https://www.jstor.org/stable/41480241.
Preferred citation
"Ghadāmisī, Aḥmad al-Bakkāʼī ibn ʻĪṣá, active 19th century." HMML Authority File. Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Last modified April 29, 2024. https://w3id.org/haf/person/627945519032
Change notes
- Date added
- 2023-08-24
- Last edited
- 2024-04-29