Saharan Myth and Saga

A'mar Abdullah Abū Abu Bakr Adrar Africa Aghlal Ahaggar Aḥmad al-Bakri al-Ḥājj al-Khaḍir al-Kunti al-Lamtūnī al-Mukhtar al-Shaykh al-Wasit Alexander Almighty Almoravids Amir ancestor ancient Arabic Arabic text Aṭār Awdaghast Awlad Āzūgi Banu battle Berber blessing and peace called camels century A.D. claim descent clans death descendants desert Folio furthest genealogies geographers Ghāna Gudāla Ḥassān Ḥassānīya Himyar Himyarite Ibn Abi Zar Ibn Khaldūn Ibrāhīm Idaw Ish Imām inhabitants Islam jinn Johannes Nicolaisen king Kitāb Kunta laḥma Lamța Lamtūna land lineage lithām Maghrib Maḥmūd Massūfa Mauritania Morocco mountain Muḥammad Mukhtar wuld Hamidun Mūsā Muslim negroes nomads Nuṣayr Prophet Qāḍī regarding region religious river Sa'id saga Sanhāja scholar serpent Shams al-Din Shaykh Sid Muḥammad Sidi Sijilmāsa Spanish Sahara Sūdān Sūs Swayd Tagānit Tājakānt Tandagha Tāshfin told town tradition Trārza tribes Tuareg Umar Uqba western Sahara Yaḥyā Yāsīn Yemenite Yusuf Znaga Zwāya