A Poem by Sheikh Tfayyish in Praise of Ḥammūd b. Muḥammad, Sultan of Zanzibar from 1314 to 1320 AH. (1896 to 1902AD)

Abstract

Those interested in Sheikh Tfayyish’s heritage might very well find it beneficial to find out about a different side of his creative writing unearthed so far, something other than those volumes already given all due care by a lot of researchers. the Sultan of Zanzibar, Ḥammūd b. Muḥammad b. Sa‘īd b. Sulṭān, who ruled over the territory of Zanzibar. We studied the poem through nine manuscript copies. We found them at various libraries in M’zab, Algeria, and classified them based on the neatness of their texts rather than on the date they were copied. We aim through this study to highlight the Sheikh's communication with countries of the Islamic world, especially with Ibāḍis outside M’zab.