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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 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-Trablusī personal stamp on title page. Overall, a fine copy. Commercially scarce autographed copy of this historical commentary on a poem by Ah?mad b. 'Abd al-Daā'im al-Ansārī in praise of Tripoli in Africa. Edited, with an introduction and index, by al-Tāhir Ahmad al-Zāwī. Signed and inscribed by Ahmad al-Zāwī (1890-1986). Al-Tadhkār is regarded as the earliest and most important foundational source for the history of Libya to this day. (Talisī). The reason for composing al-Tadhkār was to provide a commentary on a poem by A?mad ibn 'Abd al-Dā'im al-Ansārī, written in response to the Moroccan traveller Abū 'Abd Allāh Mu?ammad ibn Mu?ammad al-'Abdar'i, who had satirized Tripoli following a dispute between him and its judge, Abū Mu?ammad 'Abd Allāh ibn 'Abd 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 'Amr ibn al-'?s, followed by Tripoli, and the advance toward the Nafusa Mountains in the west. The narrative continues up to the era of A?mad 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 A?mad Pasha al-Qaramanli. OCLC: 851421938 & 23506754. Signed by translator.