| Reference number: |
MS 380641
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| Summary: |
Journals of Humphrey Fisher, 1973-1978, describing in detail trips to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gambia, and Ghana, on study leave, as visiting lecturer at Cuttington College (Liberia), or as external examiner to Fourah Bay College (Sierra Leone), with appendices of relevant documents and source material, including transcripts of correspondence between or concerning the Ahmadiyya movement and the Muslim League in India (1938-1946).
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| Main author: |
Fisher; Humphrey John (fl 1963-2002); historian
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| Extent: |
4 volumes
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| Admin history: |
Dr Humphrey Fisher was Reader in the History of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Publications include: Ahmadiyyah: a study in contemporary Islam on the West African coast (1963); with Allan George Barnard Fisher, Slavery and Muslim society in Africa: the institution in Saharan and Sudanic Africa, and the trans-Saharan trade (1970); edited Benjamin Anderson's Narrative of a journey to Musardu, the capital of the Western Mandingoes ... with Narrative of the expedition despatched to Musahdu by the Liberian government ... in 1874 ... (1971); joint translator of Gustav Nachtigal's Sahara and Sudan [1971-]; joint editor of Rural and urban Islam in West Africa (Asian and African studies, vol xx no 1, 1986). |
Dr Humphrey Fisher was Reader in the History of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Publications include: Ahmadiyyah: a study in contemporary Islam on the West African coast (1963); with Allan George Barnard Fisher, Slavery and Muslim society in Africa: the institution in Saharan and Sudanic Africa, and the trans-Saharan trade (1970); edited Benjamin Anderson's Narrative of a journey to Musardu, the capital of the Western Mandingoes ... with Narrative of the expedition despatched to Musahdu by the Liberian government ... ... View more |
| Acquisition: |
The material was presented by Dr. Humphrey Fisher in 1993.
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| Access status: |
Open
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| Language: |
English
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| Finding aids: |
Unpublished handlist
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| Originals: |
The original correspondence between and concerning the Ahmadiyya movement and the Muslim League in India is in the Archives of the Muslim League.
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| Format: |
Archive
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| Subjects: |
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| Access Points - Person, Corporate & Family Names: |
| Name Code |
Person, Corporate or Family Name |
Type of Entity |
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GB/SOASNAF/P787
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Fisher; Humphrey John (fl 1963-2002); historian |
Person |
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GB/SOASNAF/C325
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Ahmadiyya Movement |
Corporate |
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GB/SOASNAF/C326
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Cuttington College; Liberia |
Corporate |
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GB/SOASNAF/C297
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Fourah Bay College; Sierra Leone |
Corporate |
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GB/NNAF/C62038
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University of London; School of Oriental and African Studies |
Corporate |
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